by Ramona Zabriskie | May 2, 2023 | Building a Partnership, Grand Marriages, Increasing Unity, Maintaining Your Vision
(How to look at this poem is hinted at in the title. A tiny screen and small thinking won’t work. Like the subject matter, it requires a larger view.) REFLECTIONS...
by Ramona Zabriskie | May 2, 2022 | Building a Partnership, Grand Marriages, Increasing Unity, Inspiring Him, Leaving a Legacy, Maintaining Your Vision
I felt him roll over in the middle of the night. It had been a good day yesterday, and in my half-awake, half-dreamy state, I suddenly felt what the old …
by Ramona Zabriskie | May 8, 2021 | Creating Your Own Happiness, Living With a Man, Preventing Conflict, Understanding Men
My grown son gave me a stack of photos one day – you know, the old-fashioned kind, the ones you have to hold in your hand or paste in a …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Oct 8, 2020 | Caring for Yourself, Creating Your Own Happiness, Helping Him Find a Dream, Identifying the Problems, Keeping the Magic, Maintaining Your Vision, Managing Conflict, Rectifying the Wrongs, Surviving the Tough Times, Uncovering the Reasons, Why Marriage
I don’t believe in cutting down trees because I believe in trees! Something mysteriously ancient in me resonates with trees — especially the grand old evergreens of my native Pacific …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Jul 30, 2020 | Best Inspirations, Building a Friendship, Building a Relationship, Increasing Unity, Maintaining Your Vision, Managing Conflict, Surviving the Tough Times
I usually write about your world, or my world…the small worlds that revolve between the four walls we call “home”. But today, if you don’t mind, I’d like to...
by Ramona Zabriskie | Jun 21, 2020 | Best Inspirations, Caring for Yourself, Managing Conflict, Surviving the Tough Times
I remember the first time I consciously experienced divine love. It made me so buoyant, I thought helium filled my heart. Just like that, on a dime, an …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Mar 5, 2020 | Best Inspirations, Caring for Yourself, Creating Your Own Happiness, Identifying the Problems
Raising four children means I have played nurse and caregiver for a long time. My Honey remembers the twenty plus times I have sat through his surgeries, including the most …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Feb 18, 2020 | Building a Partnership, Keeping the Magic, Maintaining Your Vision, Managing Conflict, Surviving the Tough Times
How many times have you felt like giving up on your marriage when it’s just one thing after another? Your end goal keeps moving in unexpected ways, or is blockaded …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Sep 18, 2019 | Creating Your Own Happiness, Generating Real Intimacy, Increasing Unity, Leaving a Legacy, Maintaining Your Vision
Do you know what a “matriarch” is? I was born into a lineage laden with matriarchs: mature, powerful women who have focused their entire lives on creating, leading, and serving …
by Ramona Zabriskie | Dec 25, 2018 | Building a Friendship, Building a Partnership, Building a Relationship, Dating, Generating Real Intimacy, Helping Him Open Up, Identifying the Problems, Increasing Unity, Keeping the Magic, Managing Conflict, Preventing Conflict, Rectifying the Wrongs, Uncovering the Reasons
There he stood, in his underwear, stuck in the doorway between the bedroom and the bathroom. He’d been on his way to floss when he picked up the distress signal …
