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“Cancer Sucks…Life Is Good…Choose Joy” is the motto of a man from Springfield, Oregon.  Aaron Jamison, a comedian and musician, has terminal cancer and is expected to have 3-9 months to live.  Jamison hands out purple bracelets printed with the above words to encourage others to smile and look on the brighter side of what life hands you. …

Jan Shepherd has a powerful blog entry in the Huffington Post this week that will inspire anyone who knows about negative self image and yo-yo dieting. In a post titled “My Relationship with Food: A Reflection of Self,” she talks about how she gave up self-hatred for being fat, got off the dieting treadmill and found inspiration for living a richer life. “Instead of…

The extraordinary thing about Emily Dickinson is that she wrote about 1,800 poems during her lifetime, but only a handful were published.  Almost all of her poems were published posthumously, when they were discovered by her sister, and Dickinson was finally regarded as an innovator who introduced a different way of writing poetry.   Dickinson didn’t conform to traditional…

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!  Thomas Jefferson, born April 13, 1743, was the third President of the United States. He is one of the key creators of the Declaration of Independence, and, you may also recognize him from that two dollar bill you keep in your wallet for good luck. Jefferson was considered one of America’s first ‘renaissance men,’ brimming…
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