Category Archives: Angels

Tuesday With The Angels-Goodwill vs Bully

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I always ask the angels to give me  words as I write my novellas and blogs. I knew a healer who said when I asked him what to do about others who are critical or cruel to me or those I love, he said, “Wish them well.”  

How powerful it is to wish well those who are unkind to us. In all the  books I write, goodness always wins and the bully learns. Today with so many bullies plagueing our media my belief now and forever is that hopefully someday they will see the light kindness brings. Wishing them well but also wishing them knowledge are compatible. In my new  book set in Mystic Bay I am writing, the angels who live as humans in Mystic Bay, impact everyday lives with thoughtful gestures and examples of kindness and understanding.

We are fortunate  to be here on earth to help our families, our friends as well as those we might never know. Our impact to help those in need will fly on angels wings little by little spreading love and kindness. Thoughts of love have power and change. Love is always more powerful than hate. Remember, we can be stewards of kindness, light workers, lighting the way to a path of kindness. The bully never wins!

My NFPW  2025 National Award for The Dog Who Came For Christmas!

Tuesdays With The Angels-Kindness vs Bully

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The more intelligent a person is, the more he discovers kindness in others”  Leo Tolstoy

In all my Mystic Bay books there is a theme where the bully is thwarted but has an awakening of sorts, a change for the better.

The theme of kindness to others, human and animal is always present in my books. In these times where bullying has been seen as part of the norm in the political world, there is still hope. For there is a spiritual awakening for many of us.

In my new book I’m writing in the Mystic Bay Series, a child is bullied and Angel Ken, and characters Gayle and Alex help change his life. Angel stories will abound in the town and the outcome will be one of love and goodwill. There is always a twist at the end of each novella, an ending of love and reflection for the reader. 

In our reality now, bullies of the world need an avenue to understand the power  kindness has for us all to hang on too. Kindness and love are the most important ingredients for a good life. Parents and adults modeling kindness to children will have profound outcomes for these future adults. Everyday,  I ask the angels to help me in my writing about angels and in my own life’s journey as a mom and grandmother. I see the results and what comes always is a pathway to joyfulness.

 

 

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angel Inspirations- Teach Our Children About Bullying

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You know who the bully hurts? Our children, the most vulnerable in our society.  Many lives of children are suffering because of the bullying in the schoolyards, the bullies in the neighborhood and as they see it play out in the media. Recently, I purchased a t-shirt that is for kids and adults. It says Everyone Is Welcome Here.

In my seven Mystic Bay Series of novellas, and memoir, Special Needs Children The Angels on My Shoulder, bullying is always one of the main themes. Why?Because bullying has to be taken to task in our society.  Teaching  about bullying begins at home and in school. Teaching kindness and how to be kind is our great opportunity to change the world.

Every one of us may have been bullied in our young lives or as adults and there is such a  need to teach the children how to overcome being bullied and how bullying hurts. We can teach kids to walk away, tell parents or adults like their teacher, bus driver or family member if somebody has bullied them. Talk to your kids about bullying.

An important lesson for our kids is to explain to them how kindness helps us grow into loving adults and how helping others helps ourselves grow up to be kind. Being kind can spread love around the world. It is more powerful than hate.

I’ve writen books that have won awards, I think mainly because of the themes of love, forgiveness, redemption and thwarting bullies.   In my next Mystic Bay novella  due to be released in 2026, bullying will once more be a theme. I love to write and the angels inspire me to realize my potential to get themes of love and hope out into the world. It is my belief that any one can change if they want to.

I ask the angels everyday to give me inspiration and they always come through. Phrases of hope, love and working through problems come to mind in my writng, creating good outcomes. Through  educating our children by helping them solve  problems and through our role modeling these traits in our lives , love and kindness will win against bullying. Kindness is inherent but can be learned. Being kind never leaves you. Kindness Crossing and Everyone Is Welcome Here are signs I love for  kindness  is forever, a  gift from above.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Angel Inspirations For Joyfulness

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“If There Are No Dogs In Heaven Then When I die, I Want To Go Where They Went” 

Will Rogers wrote that quote and rescuing many a dog and cat inspired me to write

The Dog Who Came For Christmas is my seventh in the Mystic Bay Series. It just won a prestigious award from the  NFPW( National Federation of Press Women). Writing is a blessing for me. I can get my feelings out in the storytelling all about angels, love, forgiveness, redemption and moving forward after sorrow. I love being a storyteller. Earlier in my life I was a special education teacher and wriote a memoir about my students called Special Needs Children The Angels on my Shoulder. These students had grace and love in their hearts and they helped me become a  better person just by being their teacher. Thus, it is the same with writing novels about Mystic Bay and the fictitious town of ordinary folk,  angels and psychics. To me love is the answer and if just one person picks something from my writing that inspires them then I am beyond joyful.

To me we have to find joyfulness in ourselves and ask our Higher Power and the angels to help us manifest what we want in our lives again and again. Happiness for our children for our partners for our friends, our comapnion animals and all the beings on the planet is a prayer I have daily. It’s a prayer without ceasing.

Maybe I’m Pollyanna or maybe I’m not but in the Dog Who Came for Christmas dogs and a cat are rescued, angels abound and humans get a second chance at life with help from the townsfolk and the angels. Happy endings are what I create and even in this tumultuous time right now when shaky ground seems the norm, can’t we  try to make our own ground stable?  Its why I write, it’s who I am…just a writer writing books about angels who believes kindness is the first ingredient of love. It’s a line from one of my books and it’s a wonderful line!  

Tuesdays With The Angels-Our Children Should Be Our #1 Priority To End Bullying

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Hello all, I ask the angels throughout the day what to say in my blogs and words and sentences come to me. So the messages today are about our children and grandchildren. They deserve to learn about respect and kindness. Many children have been the victims of bullying whether they’ve been picked on for their special needs, or differences in race, color or shy and vulnerable ways. In any situation bullying is destructive to their well being.

Here we are witnessing leaders of our country bullying folks in the news while defending their actions. How sad it is. Don’t they know their children and other people’s children are watching, listening and learning its the norm to bully?

When I was young, there was civility mostly in our society. I pray to bring us back to a more respectful world for the sake of our children, grandchildren and all around the world.

Compassion is as much a part of love as kindness is. We need to teach our children to be kind, respectful of others and kind and respectful to themselves. Teaching them every life is precious is primary for them to grow up to be productive, caring adults.

The angels messages give me hope. Angels are near us I’m sure of it. I met one once in human form. He changed my life for the better with kind and hopeful words. In all my novels, childrens book and my memoir, the themes are there for all my readers to see. The messages are from the angels I believe. The angel’s  words come to me to believe in hope for our children.  Hope is a prayer away. 

 

Tuesdays With The Angels- Replacing Fear with Gratitude Will Find Joy

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A new year comes and unfortunately our world still reels from a tumultuous 2024. There is a thought by many though that the world will improve, that hate can dissipate, that love can  find a way to unite us here on our beautiful earth. It’s just a speck in the vast universe and yet we are made from all the components, the fabric of life but still so many are blind to that thought. Hate is powerful but Love is the most powerful force of all.

When I ask for inspirations from the angels they  come in words and phrases. Lately. the phrase has been, let  gratefulness replace fearfulness. Would it really be that strange to think that attitude and hope could be the catalyst for ending wars and hate?

I’ve written many times that after my daughter passed away I  met a man who I’m sure was an angel.  I feared my life had no meaning and gratefulness and joy were seemingly gone. Hope was a thing of the past. Yet meeting the angel with his comforting presence started to change my way of thinking. I could be happy again, I could find courage to go on and love those left to care for including my fellow man. Bitterness, I vowed,  would never show its face, I had work to do as a teacher, a parent, a wife and a friend.

Now and forever, I look for hope  for our world  as I ask for inspiration from the angels. Compelled to write books with angels themes I go on. I want my children and grandchildren to know that many of us look up at night in wonder at the planets and stars so far away to comprehend. We  wonder what we are here for? Is the answer always  to love each other? It is for me. For we are here to love and help each other with grateful hearts.  Look up tonight and see what I see. I see endless possibilities the vast universe has waiting for us if we choose to find them. Joy is not an impossible dream.My life changed in an instant and yet years later I found surely love never dies and joy is possible when gratefulness replaces fearfulness and love is always  triumphant.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Clarence, the Angel & It’s a Wonderful Life

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I don’t remember the first time I saw the iconic 1946 film, It’s A Wonderful Life  but the film has been one of the inspirations for my writing the Mystic Bay Series. 

Many remember theChristmas story where George Bailey is contemplating suicide by jumping off the town bridge into the river. His family business has been ruined, he thinks, by the antagonist, the wealthy and ruthless Mr. Potter. But all is about to change when George is about to jump into the water and unbeknownst to him, Clarence, his guardian angel is sent from heaven to help. Clarence  jumps in first crying for George to save him. George jumps in and saves Clarence.  Clarence tells George he is his angel and shows him what life would have been like had George never been born. All the goodness George showed his family and neighbors would never have happened and Mr. Potter would run the town into the ground.

This classic in humanity helped inspire me to write my nine books. I believe in angels and I believe they are here for us all, sometimes seen and most times unseen. In this time of war in parts of the world and sorrow plaguing so many, I continue writing about love, forgiveness, redemption with angels at the helm. I’ve been through sorrow but somehow I’ve always known there’s a Clarence in all our lives. Think about angels. I do all day long.I honor the film It’s A wonderful Life in all my books because good always wins and the bully never does. Goodness and kindness are actions of love.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Kindness Is Not A Weakness

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Now when the world seems tumultuous and hate hurts so many, it’s time to think of those who have passed on, all our loved ones gone to heaven’s realm. Would they tell us how short this time on earth is? I feel strongly they would tell us love is all that matters.

If I had to choose two sentences to say to my husband, children, grandchildren and loved ones, one would be, I love you more than words can say. The other would be this- Kindness is not weakness but a strength.

To be kind now in the face of hateful speech that reverberates around the world, gives me hope. Kindness by itself is power from heaven above and can make hate leave many hearts.  As the beloved character, Madam Norma in my Mystic Bay Series always said,”Kindness is the first ingredient of love. Ask the angels for help. They are always listening.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Angel Inspirations Children & Animals

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In 1995, this very day, I lost my daughter, Kate. At nineteen she was beautiful, bright, in love with her boyfriend, and glowing going to college. She loved her family, her dogs and cat and her friends. Her promise of a bright future was there for the making but her future was to be with God.

I have learned so many things these years gone by. So many lessons learned that I can’t put them all down on paper.  I do know for sure that love is the answer to everything. My twins, Mike and Elizabeth, who are adults now, have shown me with grace and fortitude their ongoing love for life and others. As teens when Kate died, they had a wisdom way mature for their age. They are kind human beings, my daughter, an incredible  mother and my son a loving uncle.They help others in need and of course love animals as our whole family does.

Years ago my journey through grief was helped by my children’s love. My dear friend Nancy,  took me on a girl’s trip years ago to help my sorrow. There we met a man I’m sure was an angel.  One day he was  at a store in Houston politely talking to us and the next day there he was again in a town we had never been to an hour away in another store. His presence astounded us and he told us he would see us at the airport. Then we turned away for a moment and when we looked back he was gone from the store. We went outside but he was nowhere. I know he was an angel there to comfort, letting me know Kate was safe in God’s hands.

Because of him, and in memory of my Kate, I have written ten books. There is only love in the books I write, all with angel themes.  My novella’s, my memoir about teaching children with special needs, and my children’s book, all were inspired by the angel and my love for Kate, my family and my own gift of life. 

My angel inspirations today, this day of remembrance and love, is to keep on loving, forgiving, hoping, praying for all to find places in their hearts for others, to know their blessings,  to help those who need us the most, the children and animals, the innocent ones of our world. Is there another book about angels in my ever-growing imagination? Always. Here is my latest.

 

Tuesdays With The Angels- Life Lessons &Two Special Ladies

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Recently, I lost two dear friends. One was my cousin, Marcy, and the other, Maggie, who was like a sister to me. Both were the same age and vivacious, kind women who were truly my confidents. Grief stricken, I wondered yet knew I would have to go on without talking to them and sharing our lives together.

I will forever miss them but learned so much from them in our years together. From Marcy, I learned how to laugh and live a positive life. Though she had lost a daughter, like I had, she went on living her best life, knowing the treasure life holds. I wrote a part of what I learned from her in my newest book, The Dog Who Came For Christmas, An Angel’s Tale. When someone would bully Marcy giving her an insult of some kind, she would say, “thank you” and then walk away smiling. What a great way of thwarting a bully.

And Maggie? Well, Maggie could see angels and the spirits of past loved ones and others since childhood. Her stories about her spiritual experiences with her dogs are written into my new novella too. She was a soft spoken person and kind to everyone. She too, had lost a young granddaughter, and yet she went on knowing loving the rest of her family was her primary goal in life. They needed her care . These two women were so close to me and though I will miss them all my life, I know their influence will keep me evolving spiritually and writing about the new lessons I’ve learned.

Once long ago, when I lost my own daughter, Kate, a woman I met briefly said to me, “Don’t worry, one day you will meet Kate in the center of a rose.” I’ve always loved that image. Roses mean love and having memories of loved ones that are forever with us are part of the gift of love from above. Someday, with hope in my heart, we will meet all our loved ones again  in the center of a rose.