To the question ”Are you happy?”…up to 99% of all would say…No. Here’s the thing – sometimes love spoils us and sometimes we spoil love. Most of us want world peace but before we can have world peace, we’ve got to get a handle on what it takes to maintain healthy peaceful relationships. So it stands [...]
I find fascinating interactions, friendships, and purposeful collaborations between two artists. You probably are familiar with the competitive friendship between Matisse and Picasso. Are you also, like me, curious about the nine-week Studio of the South creative collaboration between Gauguin and van Gogh? Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) and Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) were only five years [...]
Miriam smiled as I entered through the old, creaky metal front door of her home. She sat still, face marked of deep wrinkles, tense with the pain only another cancer patient would understand. In that soft, sweet, melodic voice she greeted me. ‘”Hello Ms. Monica, I’ve been anticipating your visit all day. I’m so happy [...]
It happened on the third day of my stay in Israel in 2006. It was Shabbat and my friends and I were sitting at the restaurant and talking. Each of us talked about their most secret desires on this day, because we were in the Promised Land, and besides, it was Friday evening and the [...]
“My friends never hear me out”, “I can never get people to appreciate my ideas”, “No one seems to care about what I think”, “Everyone bosses over me and takes me for granted”… Have you ever felt this way? Have you ever wished you could change this? So how do you influence people? How can [...]
How does a girl go about making a guy fall in love with her? Is there really a right and a wrong way to do it? You’ve fallen for him, but can you make him yours? If you are sick and tired of being single or in casual relationships that never progress into anything more, [...]
