My mouth dropped open as I heard chef-owner Daniel Humm of Eleven Madison Park Restaurant explain in a television interview why he closed his restaurant for three months to completely remodel it, gut the kitchen, re-do the...

By Lucille Zimmerman – People without a healthy sense of self try too hard to please others. They focus on what they think will please others; so much so that they don’t live the life God designed...

Something happens to me every time change comes to Restoring Order: I nest. This mama bird starts rearranging the nest, pitching the old feathers and sticks, and shoring up the dents. I literally start organizing and beautifying...

By Olga Hermans – The philosopher Plato wrote an allegory in which he compared people to prisoners chained in a cave. The only reality they knew was the tiny space of their surroundings. But if a person...

By Josephine Lalwan – I started to write a few new years’ resolutions or intentions, the usual things, more exercise, look after self better plus some things I want to achieve like improving my photography skills and...

By Vicki Norris – Renew means to begin or take up again, to bring something back to a former state, or to revive. To renew is to make new again. If you’re living with anything less than...

By Jane Morrison – Have you ever wondered how those Olympic athletes have such drive, willpower and tenacity to push their bodies to the limit of physical capabilities? It’s because they have a vision, an end in...

By Denise Horner Mitnick – When my husband and I were celebrating our 25th wedding anniversary last January, I developed symptoms of a severe gallbladder attack. We traded the winter wonderland resort where we were renewing our...