From My Notebook

Explores Michigan's Lake Superior University's "List of Words Banished from the Queen’s English for Misuse, Overuse, and General Uselessness,” the word 'amazing,' and recognizing how 'amazing' life really is as we enter the new year. 

Explores finding meaning in a car accident, realizing who is in control, accepting what happens in life and how we can learn to react positively to challenges, and what it means to crown G-d King. 

Explores staying focused while pushing ourselves to reach our potential, the importance of having a cheering squad to support you, having concrete goals and a plan to achieve them. 

Explores pacing ourselves while making an effort to achieve our goals, and preparing ourselves for Rosh Hashanah. 

Explores feeling imprisoned, judging others and ourselves, how to give advice to others, how to attain freedom. 

Explores what it means when children don't listen to parents, when we don't listen to ourselves, making mistakes, and how a curse turns into a blessing.

Explores saying 'thank you,' showing appreciation to others, increasing personal happiness, why being joyful is necessary for us to fulfill our personal mission, and how it's all intertwined. 

Explores fixing holes, painting, reflecting on our past, growing from our mistakes, strengthening ourselves through life's challenges, and Tisha b' Av.

Explores living in a 'super-sized' time where everyone wants bigger and better, when is supersized really necessary, and developing a supersized love. 

Explores the power of storytelling and achieving our goals by reviewing the experiences in our lives that brought us to success. 

Explores Snapple's grassroots campaign, fulfilling your mission in life, and striving to be the best you that you can be. 

Explores how answers and reasons are influenced by our relationships with others, and how our relationship with G-d affects keeping G-d's commandments. 

A poem about the specialness of the Lubavitcher Rebbe and his influence on my life. 

Explores fishing, being helpful, the contagiousness of friendliness, teaching children, Parshas Shelach, and the commandment of tzitzis. 

Explores Nintendo, playing video games, second chances, trying even when we don't succeed, Parsha Behalosecha and Pesach Sheini.  

Explores what it means for something to be our favourite and how we can infuse that type of special energy into every activity and mitzvah (good deed) that we do. 

Explores the idea of building a relationship with our spouse that has a strong foundation and remains exciting and how this can be done with our relationship with G-d. 

Explores the connection between Parshas Bamidbar, self discovery, and becoming the person that G-d created you to be. 

Explores the connection between Parshas Behar-Bechukotai, charity, and the importance of remembering to not only help others but to help our family as well.    

Explores the connection between Parshas Emor, Pesach Sheini, second chances, and how children help us become the people we are destined to be. 

Explores the connection between Parshas Acharei-Kedoshim, mitzvot, lighting up the world, and my daughters 10th birthday.