From Gratitude to Grace

Every morning I write 10 things I am grateful for in my journal. Every morning. It’s easy enough when some exciting things have happened in my life. Then the gratitude flows sometimes past my magical number 10! But at other times I get stuck. I am at number 6 and have run out of things […]

Songs of Love

  There is ONE LOVE, it’s the GREATEST LOVE OF ALL and it’s ALL YOU NEED! Happy LOVE Day – make every moment a moment of LOVE – think love, speak love, do love, be love   Three of my favourite songs about LOVE – what are yours? One Love – Bob Marley All You […]

Turning my canoe around and floating down the stream of life

The longer I live the more I realize that life is full of challenges and will continue to be so.  Even living free, laughing and joyous has moments of challenges and crises.  And sometimes those moments are long, long moments.   I have recently been through one such m”moment” – 4 or 5 long months […]

How would you like to live in a happy city?

How do we get a happy city? This was the essential theme of an address by Rahul Bhardwaj, the CEO of Toronto Community Foundation (TCF) at a Ramsay Talks luncheon yesterday.   Rahul was there ostensibly to present the Vital Signs 2012 Report on Toronto as a liveable city.  Instead, he upped the ante and posited […]

How I wrote my book – with ease, grace and joy

  I am often asked how I wrote my book and if it was a tedious, painstaking and horrendous process.  It was not.  Indeed, it was a wonderful experience that I remember with joy, because, as I tell people – I did not set out to write a book.  I was simply creating a super […]

Running Sisterhood

Running is the most natural of human impulses – babies crawl, walk and then run.  Once they know about running, they never stop – buzzing everywhere at breakneck speed until some adult says “Careful” “Stop” or “Don’t”!  And that’s the beginning of the end of the joy of running for most of us.  Heard enough […]

Of national crises …. and weeding

I wrote this blog last year May, when there was political turmoil in Jamaica.  I never posted it.  Today, with London burning and stock markets tumbling, it seems just as relevant – my reminder to myself to hold a place of peace.   _________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ As the political crisis in my homeland Jamaica took a turn […]

A second chance …

One day last October, as I “happened” to be clearing the Inbox of my old Jamaican e-mail address,  I discovered an e-mail that read: “This is Lisa.  I’ve been trying to find you and I’m so happy to have come across your blog and then I searched for your email. I hope this is still […]

Bin Laden is dead. What is the world coming to?

“Mummy, why did they have to kill him?  Couldn’t they have just captured him”?  asked my 18 year old daughter as she, her brother and I watched President Obama making the announcement that Osama bin Laden had been killed.  I felt no elation, no joy, no relief at this news.  Frankly, I felt uncomfortable.  But […]

Dream big dreams ….. take small steps

I love big dreams.  I love big dreamers!  Martin Luther King – who dreamed that one day, soon, everyone would be free and united in love, regardless of race, colour or creed.  Sir Richard Branson who dreamed of flying around the world in a balloon, and of commercial travel into space; Bill Gates who dreams […]

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