Susan Mary Malone

I saw this on Facebook this morning (so it has to be true!  LOL), although no attribution was given: If you feel grateful but don’t express it, it’s like wrapping a present and not giving it. And while I’m usually not into FB wisdom, I liked this one.  A lot.  Because of course it rings […]

I just saw the new P&G Super Bowl ad, “Like a Girl.”  Wow!  How cool is that?  Talk about women empowering women.  🙂 The video, by Lauren Greenfield, Sundance Film Award-winner, asks, “When did doing something ‘like a girl’ become an insult?” Always Brand Director Amanda Hill hopes this is the first of what will […]

Call me Pollyanna, but I truly believe people are, at the core, good. Yeah, yeah, there are the psychotically evil and the sociopaths. You bet. But they have wires crossed somewhere in their brains. In fact, I’m not sure ‘pure’ sociopaths exist. Different levels of them, sure. My psychiatrist brother tells a story in Five […]

OMG—I saw the coolest thing on 60 Minutes!  One of those things that makes my world come all together into one big happiness heap. “The World’s Smartest Dog,” the segment was about a man and his Border Collie, Chaser.  Seems he’s taught Chaser over 500 words, and the dog is flawless at finding exactly what […]

Okay, so of course we all go through times when life really is hard.  We all know it can be.  As the Buddha said, “Life is suffering.” But he didn’t leave it with that!  The Noble Truths go on to basically say that if you can control your body and mind in a way that […]

You can’t trust your own brain.  You just can’t!  It will take you down the craziest roads ever, and replay old tapes until you believe them.  And we have scientific proof of this (gotta love the science!).   I mean, once that reptilian brain (I know, it’s instinct!) has replayed 50,000 times the same thought […]

Energy fields surround us.  Many are dubious, I know.  But proof has come to me in so many ways, even my own skeptical mind accepts it. I like science to back up my beliefs.  LOL.  Yes, the biblical Hebrews talks about faith being the evidence of things not seen, and that is surely true.  But […]

Wow, you made it!  The race has been run, the mountain climbed, the book finished.  After all you’ve been through, just wow. How many ordeals did you face?  Some you mastered, some perhaps leaving tentacles to unravel another day.  But you got through.   And in so doing, found out more about yourself than you […]

Well, we’re glad those annoyances in the last part are over! But, the stage is now set for the final ordeal.  Here everything comes together as you begin your sprint toward the goal.  This leads to the climax, that final facing of the foe within and without, the most dangerous part of our journey.   Will […]

Reward over! Well, that was abrupt. And quite sadly, it usually is.   How rude. I mean, here you were, having faced the big inner demons.  Basking in your reward, whatever that was.  Feeling pretty dang good about yourself and where you are on this journey.  Ready to tackle it again!   And wham!  Not […]

We have had some fairly tough slogging indeed.  Ah, the new things we’ve had to learn!  Getting “called” to begin with was perhaps shocking enough.  Then doing our best to avoid that call.  Then whatever pushed us to take the steps to commitment.  And all the trials and tribulations that taught us skills we needed.  […]

We might be a little tired on our quest.  I mean, sheesh!  Since we started this journey there has been little rest.  We’ve faced lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Many of those were folks we thought to be friends.  So the emotional toll has been relatively high as well. Facing an unknown enemy […]