by Hollye Dexter | May 8, 2015 | hope through adversity, Howard Jones, Jammin' for Jones, miracles, the power of positive thinking
March was the month from hell. It really was. I started to backslide into old negative belief patterns that I was unlucky, that this was my fate – had always been my fate, that bad things just randomly happen to me, etc…But then I stopped myself and said, “No,...
by Hollye Dexter | Apr 3, 2015 | Easter, Fire Season, Grief, hope through adversity, how to be happy, overcoming adversity, passover, star wars, the power of positive thinking, The ten plagues, when bad things happen to good people
It’s Good Friday today, although I seriously doubt Jesus would have called it that. Talk about a bad day. With Passover and Easter upon us, I thought I’d share my own tale of the seven plagues. Or is it ten? I don’t know. I just know that recently Troy and I seemed to...
by Hollye Dexter | Feb 10, 2015 | RAKweek2105, Random Acts of Kindness, Random Acts of Kindness Week, the power of positive thinking, the power of words
Last week, my friend Sue sent me a message filled with kind and loving words completely out of the blue. She said she had been thinking and feeling these things, and her mother had always told her, “If you’re thinking something nice about someone, tell...
by Hollye Dexter | Dec 22, 2014 | answered prayers, christmas, family, living your dreams, The King Family, the power of positive thinking
Last night at the King Family Christmas party, our friend Wendy got up and told the story of her childhood Christmases in Australia. Her father ran a general store that was open 365 days a year, even half a day on Christmas. On Christmas, she and her brothers...
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...