Category Archives: Bullying

Tuesdays With The Angels-All Children Deserve A Wonderful Life

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It’s A Wonderful Life has always been my favorite holiday movie. Maybe it’s because the theme of the film is truly about love and kindness and how it changes everything. In the film, an angel comes to change George’s life. George is a man who wants to end his life as the bully in the town has seemingly ruined the family business. Clarence, the angel, appears showing George what life would have been like if George had never been born. In the end George realizes his unselfish kindness to the townsfolk and his family has saved the business and that he really does have a Wonderful Life. 

I encountered an angel once long ago when hope seemed gone after my daughter died. The angel, like Clarence, appeared human to me and comforted me with his words. He seemingly disappeared and I realized it had been a true miracle in my life. I knew then putting my family first was paramount. Life had to go on and my children needed me more that ever.

I believe we must give our children a wonderful life as best we can. Through the wartorn world now, the children must be at the forefront of every adults mind. The children are the world’s future. They watch us, they learn from us. They can learn love or they can learn that bullying, another word for hate, is okay. Bullying has no place in our world. We must nuture our children as best we can. Just as George’s town helped him thwart the bully with their kindness, every child deserves protection from the hate in the world.

I believe in angels. Knowing that angels are here guiding us in seen or unseen ways gives me hope in humanity and human kindness. For hope and dreams and being kind to others helps our children no matter where they live in our world. Bless the children of the world for they all deserve a Wonderful Life.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Teach Your Children That the Bully Never Wins

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What’s happening? Why are people bullying on national TV for our children to see? The politicians, podcasters and hater adults acting like the old characterization of the schoolyard bully? It’s cruel.

As I write books about angels, I get appalled and saddened at the same time. Bullying has been around since the dawn of man, yet not so prevalent. Hatred in the news for people different ethnicities, religions and color of people’s skin? What are our children witnessing? Will this epidemic of bullying be the role model for them to follow into their adulthood? If I was to write a letter to the editor of any newspaper in the USA I would say this…

  We have as adults, a duty to our children and grandchildren to stand up and say ‘Enough‘. I ask the angels to help, I pray we talk to our kids. Tell them kindness and love wins. Is this the answer? What else can we do? For on this beautiful planet, the bully should never win. 

Tuesday With The Angels- The Bully Never Wins-Bullying Hurts

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There’s beauty in being sensitive to the differences of others. As a child I remember a little girl who bullied some of us on the block and others made fun of kids at school. I remember how I wanted the little girl to be my friend and yet she would pick on us. I remember my friend, Nancy’s mother talking to us about it. Long ago her mother helped me realize it was wrong to make fun and be mean to others.

Bullying is still hurting our children. Many of us have been bullied at one time or another and we remember it. It hurts our development of self esteem. During those times I felt bullied as a child, my self esteem was low. I  never would have believed then I would write about bullying, or be a retired educator, or write books about angels. What kind of role models should we be? We should discuss bullying with our children often. It’s one path to end bullying.

Even before I met the man I know was an angel sent to comfort me when I lost my daughter, I knew God and angels existed. I ask the angels everyday to show me the way to love and kindness. Encouraging our children  to walk away and find other friends who are nice to them helps our children grow into confident adults. There’s beauty in being sensitive to the needs of others. Being kind is powerful. The bully never wins.

Tuesdays With The Angels-The Bully Never Wins

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Bullying hurts our kids and our progress to evolve into a world full of human kindness. There is too much bullying on the internet, social media, and in schools.

When I write my angel novels, I always write in a character who has bully-like behaviors. In the story the other characters learn to thwart the bully’s efforts by having the confidence and courage to walk away. Many times I write the bully character as learning eventually to change his or her ways.

My novels are full of love, redemption and forgiveness and also self reflection. It is my hope my first mystery, Summer of Angels will show readers that I believe angels are always near, how love always wins and of course, the bully never wins.

 

Tuesdays With The Angels-Summer of Angels

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 Summer of Angels is here. It  is my first Mystic Bay Mystery! Set in the fictitious town of Mystic Bay, Gayle Force, a psychic meteorologist, has a prophetic dream sent by an angel. She must prevent a crime from happening. As in all my novels, a bully must be thwarted and the bully in this novel is no match for Gayle and her detective partner, Alex Knight! With angels at the helm, the bully never wins.

 

Tuesdays With The Angels-The Bully Never Wins

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As a young girl I witnessed bullying in our neighborhood. The little girl was cruel  to my friend and me. My own mother didn’t seem to notice but my friend Sally’s mother did. She sat us down and talked to us about it. Her words gave me confidence. I’ll never forget her kindness. Perhaps she is the inspiration for so much of my mothering skills. 

Unfortunately, in our lives today bullies come and bullies go. The bully is in the schoolyard, the neighborhood, and the politics played out like a TV show in the news headlines.

What can we do about it? Like Sally’s mother, we can gravitate to those who inspire us with their kindness and support. Besides these people with angelic qualities, I always visualize Heaven’s angels near. I think they send messages of hope, and positive thoughts and ideas.

Gratefully,  I’ve met many a kind person in my life especially one I am sure was an angel sent from above to comfort me long ago.When I lost my child and sorrow took me down, a kind friend took me on a girl’s trip. There we met a man who had to be an angel. He is the inspiration for all my angel books. In my books, of course, there are kind characters, themes of hope, redemption, forgiveness and love. But also, there are oh so many angels to help make sure the bully never wins.

Tuesday With The Angels- My Favorite Christmas Movie and Bullying

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At Christmas time, the 1946 movie, It’s A Wonderful Life, is my very favorite to watch. George Bailey, feels his business and life is ruined and wishes he was never born. He meets Clarence, his guardian angel, who stops him from jumping off the town’s bridge into a river. Clarence shows George, what life would be like in the town if George had never been born and his good deeds never happened. It’s a heartfelt story of George’s courage, kindness and love of family and neighbors. The story is an example of what standing up against a bully can do. Long ago, I was fortunate to meet an angel in human form. This comforting angel is the inspiration for all the books in my Mystic Bay Series. In the stories I write, the bully never wins. Other George Bailey’s are out there now, thwarting bullies today! They are our heroes. It IS a wonderful life! Happy Holidays!  

Tuesdays With The Angels-The Bully Never Wins

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Bullying is a theme in all my novels. In Town of Angel Christmas, the bully tries to prevent the sale of land proposed for housing future rescued wild horses. In the story, Angel Ken, who is secretly living a human existence, helps solve the issue by weaving his courage, wit and kindness, ultimately thwarting the bully’s efforts.  In all my novels, the bully is taught a lesson in human kindness.

It’s the same in our lives today. Whether, the bully ever learns his or her way to kindness depends on their own willingness to let goodness in. They can be influenced by the way other’s react to them.

If we stand firm with kindness in our hearts, we will have the strongest shield of all. It’s a shield built of love, and angel lessons. Love is indeed a strength to be reckoned with. When I write, love and angels always win.