by Hollye Dexter | Dec 31, 2014 | gratitude, life lessons, maya angelou, new years resolutions
For the past few years on New Year’s Eve, I couldn’t wait for the year to be over. They were years of struggle and challenge, lawsuits and deaths and restraining orders and floods and exploding plumbing disasters. But in these years, there have also been...
by Hollye Dexter | Sep 10, 2014 | Dani Shapiro, facebook addiction, Internet addiction, life lessons, meditation, social media, writing
This summer, after years of both working in social media and having active personal accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, a spate of ugly events caused me to shut down my computer and walk away. I didn’t plan this, nor did I have any idea if I would ever open...
by Hollye Dexter | Aug 9, 2014 | being fired, hope through adversity, How to survive betrayal, life lessons, surviving disaster, surviving loss, the power of positive thinking
When I got fired from my job in June, it pretty much knocked me flat. Not only had this been a job, it had been a calling. Add to that the betrayal by people I’d thought were my friends. My true friends rushed in to lift me, like emotional EMTs. Amy said, “You...
by Hollye Dexter | Apr 23, 2014 | Amy Ferris, Dancing At the Shame Prom, family, hope through adversity, life lessons, life story, surviving disaster, the power of positive thinking, writing life, writing memoir
(This story was posted on “Maria Shriver’s Architects of Change.” It is excerpted from my new memoir “Fire Season: Losing Everything and Finding Myself.” With deep gratitude…) On the morning of November 18th, 1994, my family...
by Hollye Dexter | Feb 26, 2014 | Joni Mitchell, life lessons, Neil De Grasse Tyson, positive thinking, the power of love
Last week I had “one of those days.” You know the kind, where everything is going wrong and everyone is on your last nerve. Work was stressful, my kids were fighting, even my cats were fighting. Before I blew a gasket, I packed the kids in the car and headed off for...
by Hollye Dexter | Oct 2, 2013 | gratitude, life lessons, Marianne Williamson, miracles, positive thinking, reclaiming joy, surviving disaster
“A miracle is a shift in perception.” – Marianne Williamson In my last post, I talked about the scientific fact that nature abhors a vacuum, and that when you release negative energy from your life, something else will rush in to fill that space. And wow oh wow has...