This is an article I first posted to my Myspace blog on Mother’s Day 2006.  Since that time and to this day, I still continue to receive heartfelt thanks from those who read it and are receiving authentic emotional healing from it. Our Mother is a vital, critical part of our emotional make up. How she treated us, how she interacted with us.  How she loved us and more importantly how loved or unloved we [...]

Chess, as the modern world has come to know it, took Europe by storm in the late 15th century.  It is derived from an ancient Indian and Persian game called Shatranj, developed sometime between the 3rd and 7th centuries. Since then, its popularity has increased all over the world, and with good reason.  Many schools actually include chess in their curriculum.  Herein ends the history lesson. Let’s get to it. Without mincing too many words, [...]

In an overwhelming world full of stress and information overload, what do we do to decompress in a healthy way? We all feel it. We all have it.  We know how dangerous it is for our health, and quality of life to be stuck in negative emotions like anger, bitterness, despair, fear, etc.  It’s not like we don’t know hanging out too long in these states affects our lives negatively, but it can be a [...]