My Author Page on Amazon. Live On Purpose! is a collection of my most impactful posts from this blog, plus the articles I’ve posted on sites including Thrive Global, The Good Men Project, InspireMore and HuffPost. It includes cutting-edge insights and personal stories – all geared […]
HuffPost Interviewed Me About Parenting In A Blended Family
I became a regular Contributor to HuffPost in 2015. After posting more than 65 articles about relationships and effective living, HuffPost asked to interview me for its Blended Families Feature. HuffPost: How many family members do you have? Grace: My husband, Ron, and I share four […]
Finding Great Love Is An Inside Job
My husband and I are in our 29th year together. Soon after we met, when we were just becoming acquainted as friends, I felt nauseas one day. Ron’s a doctor, and he wanted to help. So he offered to stick his finger down my throat to make […]
We’re All In This Together, But It Doesn’t Mean We’ll Ever Agree On Everything
One of my best friends rode around for more than a year with our mutual friend’s ashes in the trunk of her car, in a Styrofoam food container, sealed with masking tape, marked “Jim.” She was waiting for the perfect opportunity to scatter Jim’s ashes […]
My Main Takeaway From Visiting Patmos
On a trip to Greece a few years ago, my husband and I island-hopped. That meant arriving without a reservation for a place to stay, with just a small backpack and one other set of clothes. And using ferries to travel between the islands, where entrepreneur-ish […]
A Look At Joseph Campbell’s New Book, “Correspondence”
By the late 80s, Shakti Gawain was a best selling author and a household name. Through her books and workshops, she became internationally known for helping people access their intuition / inner guidance, and for mentoring them in using their mind-body-spirit connection to heal themselves […]
Disciplining Children Is More Than Changing Their Behavior
I recently overheard my son say something to his young child, and it didn’t seem like it would work out well for them. It wasn’t serious. Just that stuff we parents do, subtly manipulating our kids to get them to do what we want because […]
How To Stay Calm When Everyone’s Losing It
On a visit to Taormina on Sicily, our hotel was situated so that we could stand on our balcony and see Mount Etna in the distance. I told my husband how great it was that the locals had strung colored lights down the mountainside. Ron […]
Our “Terrible Twos” May’ve Been Worse Than We Think
My friends have a fabulous toddler. He runs up and down the hall just for the joy of running. He revels in getting a spoon of food to his mouth. He shoves sounds together into sentences and beams at his success. He hasn’t figured out […]
If You Leave Me Tonight, Do You Mind If I Come With You?
Breakups are usually heartbreaking, with inevitable feelings of pain and loss. We often want to hold on, even if it’s not good for us. Being with the person can look more appealing than being alone. When a couple shares real love, meaning respect and kindness […]
Every Argument Begins With The Second Sentence
There’s a bizarre thing about parenting. We’re doing the best we can, while at the same time we have an inkling that our kids may need therapy later. We try to get it all right, but it’s not likely that our kids will get through […]
My Main Takeaway From Visiting Qumran
In my 20s, I lived on a kibbutz in Israel. The idea to leave America and move to Israel first came to me when I was working in a school for children with multiple disabilities in Atlanta, where I became close friends with a 65-year-old […]
Cross My Heart And Hope To Die!
When my stepdaughter was ten, she walked into a local restaurant and asked the Greek owner if he would sell her an over-sized wooden rosary that he’d brought from his homeland and hung behind the sales register. She knew I’d seen it and liked it, […]
Real Love Is Like A Marathon
My daughter-in-law qualified for the Boston Marathon by running in a local marathon, just making it by an amazing three seconds! She was really hurting the last five miles. A stranger saw her and began to walk-run alongside her, subtly encouraging her. She could hardly […]
