Tuesdays With The Angels-It’s A Wonderful Life & My Very Own Angel

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It was Christmas time a few years ago. I  met a man outside a grocery store. We were putting our carts back in the proper place assigned for them but others had put their carts on the sidewalk or in front of other cars or in handicapped spaces. I remember this man said, “Everybody is acting like a Mr. Potter,” He was referring the film,  It’s A Wonderful Life. I was surprised he mentioned the old film but he and I briefly exchanged our disappointment in others. As we left, I wondered how he knew I had watched the 1946 classic film. Was it a coincidence? Or was he a messenger from above?

The themes in my Mystic Bay Series have  always been inspired by the iconic  Christmas film, It’s A Wonderful Life.  Set during World War II, the theme resonates today as bullies around the globe try to bring us down to our knees. In the film, George Bailey, a kind son, has to take over the family business when his father dies. Now he can’t follow his dreams of seeing the world.  The bully in town, Mr. Potter,   tries to destroy George’s family business and takeover the town. George  becomes despondent and decides the world would be better off without him. Yet, heaven and Clarence, his guardian angel, have a lesson for him. His angel, appearing as an older gentleman, comes from heaven and  shows George what life would be like in the town if he’d never been born. George saved his brother’s life as a child by pulling him from an icy pond. That would have never happened if George had never been born.  At the hands of  Mr. Potter, George’s wife would have never married and    the town would be ruined by Mr. Potter’s cruelty and greed.

The theme resonates with me as I write my soon to be eighth book in the Mystic Bay Series where angels live as humans guiding the townsfolk with love. In the film, George changes his attitude and handles the bully as he realizes his wonderful life. The town comes together to help him thwart the bully with their friendship. 

Long ago, after my daughter died, I met an angel of my own.  My friend, Nancy, took me on a girl’s trip. The distinguished man was standing by the cash register in a department store.  We exhanged pleasantries as  he said he was on business and we explained we were on a girl’s trip. I think now his business  really was showing me that he was my guardian angel.

Surprising us, we encountered him the very next day as he walked up and greeted us in a small gift store miles away. He smiled at the coincidence of us meeting again. He told us we would see him at the airport. We turned away to look at some items a little taken aback at the coincidence that he was there. Then we  looked back to find he had disappeared. His   presence had been surreal and it  comforted me. My fear of flying had escalated since my daughter’s passing. We had met him twice in a twenty-four hour time period. I suddenly wasn’t afraid to fly anymore. Nancy and I decided right then that he must have been an angel sent to comfort me.

This theme is in all my books. My Christmas novel is typical of the love I try to create in my themes. Finding joy with the help of friends and family and helping others is key to having our own wonderful life.  Counting on the fact that our angels are all around guiding us helps me daily. I believe the bully never wins and love is always triumphant. Angels are with us. Was that man at the grocery store parking lot sent from above to remind me of the thought  that we have a wonderful life? Nancy and I still speak of the man angel we met years ago.  That day, he changed my life. I met my very own Clarence. I thank him everyday.

Tuesdays With The Angels- Hope Grow Love

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I had lunch with old friends and one asked us what advice we’d give our grown children if there was one important message. My answer was a simple one. Stay close and love each other. Be together.

It’s part of my daily attitude of how precious life is and how fast it goes. One friend spoke of a bully in our high school. I always think of bullies as troubled souls and write them as characters in my Mystic Bay Series. In the novels, the bullies always learn lessons and some of them change for the better. Hope is always present in my thinking. To me, hope is a prayer for things to change for the good.

It seems like yesterday my kids were babies and now I have grandchildren. The years have  gone by so quickly. Wisdom does come with the years and I put what ideas I feel the angels send me into all my books.

Hope Grow Love is a message to ponder, isn’t it? I’ve just finished my latest Mystic Bay novel. It’s at the editors for her final and brilliant editing. I put my heart and soul in these books. Long ago, when the high school bully tried to hurt me, somehow I had the strength within through the years to move forward.

As a teacher, I knew and could intrinsically feel, the heart and needs of my students with special needs. I knew how to be a team with my late husband and my present husband. I knew how to be a supportive mother to my living children and that I had done the best I could at the time mothering my late daughter.

We can find joy if we traverse through all the troubles of life, living the best we can, growing  without even knowing it, and loving as hard as we can. The bully never wins and love is always triumpant.

 

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Tuesdays With The Angels-Angels & Sunflowers

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In the summer my husband and I happily live in a mountain town. There, I marvel as August comes and the wild sunflowers emerge from the ground with spectacular precision as they sway with the wind. This year two grew in the yard and I knew when I saw the little bit of green they would be wild sunflowers blown in from the fields and forests nearby. The wild ones grew tall in September and as late in the summer came they still hadn’t bloomed. One is just opening up and the first one bloomed  two days ago. October has arrived with fall chilly morning air, so I wait for the second one with hope to fully bloom before the frost comes.

The little miracles happened  as they grew when both their closed faces seemingly overnight  turned toward the east and the morning sunlight.  It made me think of the problems of our world. I’d asked the angels to help sunflowers, and the pumpkins in my garden. I asked for the flock of  black birds to return in August for their brief time at the feeder and they did. I ask everyday for  humanity to help each other around the world..

Since I’m a writer of angel stories, I ask the angels to help people see the need to help each other  the way nature cares for all the trees,  flowers and plants. In these times when hope seems to fade toward peace, we have everything we need to help ourselves and our world. Turing our  faces to  heaven, we can feel the gift of life just as the late blooming wild sunflowers in my yard instinctively did.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Resilience & Joy vs Bullying

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Resilience means  The capacity or withstand or recover quickly from difficulties ;toughness .

Today in our world and our country when bullying has meant most of the US citizens are scared, many to speak out I, as an author, am not afraid. The first amendment clearly stated  Freedom of Speech to be the primary important part of living in our democracy.

I am not afraid of anything. I’ve lived a full life with many sorrows but mostly with many joys. Resilience is my strength. Finding joy by helping our own families but by helping those in need in our country and around the world, will help thwart the bullying that has erupted.

Finding calm in a storm by prayer, positive healing thoughts, speaking out against cruelty and loving each other will help us all. I don’t know the anwers to everything but I do know this. When my daughter Kate, passed away, and I felt guilt that I could not save her, I somehow with help from above found the resilience to keep going for my teenage children, my family and students. I had to grow as a human being with God’s gift of kindness and love to show those around me and those I will never meet my kindness. As a saying goes ‘Fear is at the door but faith answers it’.

My father and my father-in-law fought in the second world war to defend democracy and the spread of evil. The bully of today will never find peace or joy by hurting others with racism and bigotry.

 Hurting others can never bring joy. It will only hurt the soul of the bully. I write books about angels with the themes ‘Love always wins’ and ‘The bully never does win in the end’. Sometimes a bully can change. So I ask God and the angels to help the bully see the light of love and joy.  Nurturing your soul towards loving kindness is the way to happiness and to live the gift of our precious life.

Tuesdays With The Angels-Threads of Love vs. Bullying

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Many of us have been bullied as children or adults. We remember it don’t we? What we remember mostly is the love for us that is never ending from family, friends or a just from a moment of kindness from a stranger. Threads of love are here to stay. They can’t ever be destroyed by hate and are stronger than bursts of anger and fear which are the characteristics of bullying.  

  The thread of love is impenetrable.  Love is the winner in most of the films and shows we view like the films of superheroes who not only have  brawn but might,  the strength of love in their souls. There are millions of people who are superheroes to their families, their friends, their jobs, their constituents. Their might is made of love threads. If we only can recognize the superhero in ourselves. Bullies don’t have superhero qualities. They don’t  choose love over revenge, jealousy or hate.

What we, who fight hate in the world, can do is to just keep building upon our love for our fellowman, those less fortunate, those in need wherever in our world. Working together is a love thread for someone or something other than ourselves.

We need to be voting for people in our government positions who care about people and their families, their futures, applauding  goodness like  the superheroes on the screen. Humanity is humans being kind to other humans in spite of our different races, religions and creeds. 

In reality there is no place for the bully in society. For  bullying is synonamous with hate. But bullies can change if they really want to. What will it take? Will they learn from those of us who believe in fairness, love and kindness? Hope is always possible. I obviously believe in angels and write about love and bullying in my books. The bully always changes as I write. So I ask with a heart full of hope that all  bullies change somehow after an incident of kindness someone has done for them.

People who are role models of goodness can spark an idea, do a good deed or do something that might turn the bully’s head around.  The love thread is unbreakable.  I can almost hear the angels whisper to me in my mind, ” Love is forever triumphant. Nothing is impossible with love at the helm.”

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- Angel Inspirations-Giving vs Bullying

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In all my life I have never seen such bullying in our country by adults. What is going on affects millions of less fortunate including the elderly and children. Making less programs available for food and medical care is appalling. Giving is the answer to today’s needs. If programs are being slashed then we who are able to give can do so much. Not just giving in heart and mind but we can give with our own resources. My children and grandchildren always have had enough to eat, clothes on their backs, support at home and the medical care they need. They are given the basics essentials for a good life.

Taking away programs for the less fortuante smacks of outright cruelty. I believe in angels and God and the goodness of people. What is happening now goes against the Golden Rule. Our children, grandchildren and people around the world are watching as cruelty and bullying tries to bring down the lifestyles of those who already have problems.. Be the solution is my way of thinking.  Give to food banks, call and write letters to your congress, don’t be afraid for the bullying won’t win as the cruelty will be checked by those that have caring hearts. Heaven is watching and prayers are answered  if we of likemindedness work together.