by Diane Hatz | Apr 25, 2023 | Musings
(Image by stock_colors from Getty Images Signature for Canva Pro) I guess I can admit it now. I was broken and bitter when I left New York two and a half years ago. I’d been in the throes of menopause but didn’t know it for many years. Perimenopause, to...
by Diane Hatz | Apr 13, 2023 | Misc
(Photo by cristianl for Getty Images Signature in Canva Pro) The biggest influence in my life is His Holiness The XIV Dalai Lama. I first saw him at a teaching in Washington, DC, in 1998. I walked into the venue angry and closed off. I left transformed. I had such a...
by Diane Hatz | Mar 28, 2023 | Newsletters
(Photo by Janine Lamontagne from Getty Images Signature for Canva Pro) Diane Discovers – A Path to Peace I read Eckhart Tolle’s book The Power of Now years ago (see Diane Reads below). And I’ve recently started watching some of his videos on YouTube....
by Diane Hatz | Mar 22, 2023 | Musings
I’m a little late to the pandemic, but I’m currently recovering from a nasty bout of covid. It’s been over two weeks since I started feeling ill, and I’ll admit, about five days were scary and beyond exhausting. But I’m on the mend. Still...
by Diane Hatz | Mar 7, 2023 | Musings
Bruce Springsteen (© benhoudijk for Deposit Photos) December 1980. I was 19 years old, at university, and writing a philosophy term paper. My father phoned in the middle of his football game to tell me that John Lennon had just been shot. He died not long after. My...