How Do You Like Your Eggs? And What That Says About You
In the film Runaway Bride, Maggie Carpenter, played by Julia Roberts, has a habit of leaving her beloved at the altar, running at the last minute from marriage. Journalist Ike Graham, played by Richard Gere, notices that Maggie takes on the passions and interests of each respective fiancé, down to the type of eggs he…
A Truth-Telling Assignment
In the film Runaway Bride, a newspaper columnist, played by Richard Gere, points out to Julia Robert’s character, aka the Runaway Bride, that she doesn’t even know what kind of eggs she likes. He had questioned all of her former beaus, and each one noted that she liked her eggs cooked the same way he…
2 Things to Do to Reclaim Your Life
There I was on Valentine’s Day, the Day of Love, and I was miserable. What was I going to do? What I always do. Read. I am a reader. I read a lot, especially self-help books. That day I remembered a book by Jungian analyst, James Hollis, who I had heard speak once in Chapel…
Becoming a Truth Teller
The fact that it was Valentine’s Day and I was married, that we were not even sleeping in the same bedroom, barely talking to each other, and I was not feeling anything close to a loving feeling on the day of love, was not lost on me. Coming to terms with that truth was the…
Be a Picky Eater
“I tell you honestly what I think is the cause of the complicated maladies of the human race: it is their gormandizing and stuffing, and stimulating their digestive organs to an excess, thereby producing nervous disorders and irritation.”~John Abernethy (1764–1831) Oddly enough, this is not a blog post about food. It is about consuming,…
The Power of Telling the Truth
“Truth, like gold, is to be obtained not by its growth, but by washing away from it all that is not gold.” ~Leo Tolstoy Thou shalt not lie. This may be a mixture of the King James Version of the Bible and my understanding, as a small child, of this commandment, but it was…
What is True for You? Living in Authenticity
My desire to please the people I love has led me, all my life, to abandon what is true for me. I lost my authenticity by being what I thought others wanted me to be. I believed that doing so would win their love. What I learned is that love isn’t like that. Being raised…