I love to pay!

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Making peace with the challenges of the past

  For the first fifteen years of my life I lived in a bleak world ...   What no one around me knew my world was bleak?    Well, it didn't look like it...   Not when I saw  my mom lovingly serve my dad the grapes peeled with a smile.   Not even when my parents danced until the little hours the next day at the parties that were organized in my … [Read more...]

Be Happy, Stay Happy … Whatever Happens!

I have been asked many times how it can be possible to be happy in difficult times. "You can't just sit back and laugh when your best friend is in the hospital or just lost your home in a tsunami! "   In order to be sure that we are talking about the same thing, let's define what happiness is not:   Happiness is not the ability to always be smiling, without any problem, making jokes … [Read more...]