Postcards From OZ: The Bomb - ILYBINILWY with Mort Fertel

This weeks guest on Postcards from Oz: Navigating Mid-Life on the Yellow Brick Road is Marriage Fitness guru, Mort Fertel. Tune in tonight as Mort and Postcards Host, Amy Harden discuss The Bomb: The "I Love You But I am Not In Love With You!" statement. What leads up to it? What should you do when your spouse drops it? How can you you prevent ever having "The Bomb" drop? Questions are always welcome!

The show is at 8 PM EST on Thursday, March 18, 2010.
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From His web site (http://www.marriagemax.com/ ):

Mort Fertel Marriage Fitness 4 Steps To Building Maintaining Phenomenal Love is a world authority on the psychology of relationships and has an international reputation for saving marriages. In addition to working with couples, he teaches individuals how to single-handedly transform their marital situation.

People from all over the world schedule private tele-sessions with Mort Fertel and seek his counsel by joining the Marriage Fitness Tele-Boot Camp. He is the author of Marriage Fitness Audio Learning System and the creator of Marriage Fitness Home-Flex, the most comprehensive relationship home learning kit in the world. Over 100,000 people a year subscribe to his free e-zine.

Mort Fertel was a featured expert on ABC, NBC, CBS, PBS, and the Fox News Network. He is also a frequent guest on talk radio programs. His breakthrough program, Marriage Fitness, appeared in the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Family Circle, Psychology Today, Ladies Home Journal, Glamour Magazine, Parent & Child Magazine, Philadelphia Inquirer, Library Journal, Women's Health, Denver Post, Orlando Sentinel, Baltimore Sun, and Toronto Sun .

Mort's Marriage Fitness program is endorsed by marriage counselors, therapists, relationship experts, and mental health professionals. And he has helped save thousands of marriages."

Good Fences Make Good Neighbors

I would love to live in the country with so much land and space between me and my neighbors that we cannot see one another or make judgments about one another's grass or the fact last Fall's leaves are still sitting in my flower beds, along with the fact that the yard fence is still not back up after the pool's completion.

Maybe if I lived in the country, my neighbor's would wave back because we would just be neighbors and all these other things would mean nothing to either of us.
I am beginning to understand Robert Frost's poem more and more each day living in the city where "Good fences make good neighbors."...the fences just aren't tall enough.

The second part of the comment is what is the crux...my neighbors don't wave back...I was raised by parents who were quite neighborly...born before the Great Depression where everyone helped everyone else no matter what...cutting grass and mulched flower beds didn't make you a good neighbor when they were alive. The fact that my neighbors are frustrated with our family because we are the only family on the block that are not signed up for the True Green plan is sad...don't you think? Last year one of my neighbors asked me when we were going to get a sprinkler system so our grass wouldn't brown out by summer's end. I told him after the neighborhood contributed to " The Harden Sprinkler Fund"...then we would get a sprinkler system.

I know it is a simple thing to let rub me the wrong way, but in my recent musings on Simplicity...I have learned that waving back and forth to a neighbor in friendliness...though a simple gesture...it can say volumes about you as a person. I will chose to wave to my neighbors no matter...I will walk the walk and talk the talk....wave the wave!!!

By the By...My next door neighbor vacuums their lawn every other day...I mean, mows the lawn so there are no leaves!!! REALLY...no kidding!! My neighbor on the other side does the same thing...you can imagine how happy they are that I don't and how ALL my leaves seem to blow on to their lawns. I truly don't do this on purpose...I am allergic to mold and can't mow the decaying leaves...plus I can't afford to hire someone to do it. I fear, my hubby is not obsessed either...so...no one waves, I guess! Oh, well!

156 Countries Sing Together for the Starbucks Love Project

Happy Valentine's Day to all my readers. May your lives be filled with tons of love...Join me as we spread the love around the world. Enjoy this wonderful video!

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Something to tickle your funny bone and make you giggle...I love this baby...if all of life could be this simple and funny.....take some time and put a smile on your face...

She Speaks to Inspire Blog Talk Radio - Focus on Fabulous - Amy L Harden

Join Laurie Zeiber and Amy L Harden, Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 at 8:00 PM EST for Focus on Fabulous: Elegance of a Woman - A frank discussion on the Elegance of Women in today's society...DIVA's,Goddesses and NOW Cougar's...Where has the Elegance gone?

Let's Forgive

This is the most amazing video about forgiveness. The video speaks for itself...but remember until we unburden ourselves and FORGIVE...even ourselves... we will not heal...we can not move forward. Forgiveness and accepting someone's forgiveness is a humble act.

Greg Olsen Art and Bebo Norman Music Video

I have always loved the art by Greg Olsen. His renditions of Christ grab me and pull me in to the scene. I have one of his prints on my office wall..."O Jerusalem", which has given me strength and comfort in tough times.

So, here is a video gift from ME to YOU....using a the art of Greg Olsen and the music of Bebo Norman. May you be bleesed today and every day!

Change Your Song

"Do you need to change your song today? Instead of complaining and thinking about what you’re not, start thanking God for what you are becoming. Just like David, stay in faith and sing to the Lord knowing that He’s going to complete what He’s started in you." Joel Osteen

It is so easy when life gets tough to allow yourself to get in to a mind that nothing is positive...life becomes a struggle of your making OR that the difficulties that you carry are weighed down further by the negative attitude that you perpetuate.

Stop!

You are doing this to you...no one else can change your perspective except you.

Is it time to change your song? If it is and your are struggling to find the music and the lyrics...maybe it is time to look to God...in Him you can be strong.

PS You may have to view this video at YouTube...please take the time...you will glad that you did.

A Million Hugs

Start your week with a HUG...Pass it on!!!

Owl City - Fireflies

Have you ever heard of this band?

I never did...until my 11 year old was sitting at the computer one day begging me to come listen to a song. She looked up in to my face with eyes filled with the wonder still there, not yet lost in a pre-teen world..."Don't you just love it, Mommy!...I love fireflies...I have always thought fireflies give hugs"

I hope this is not the last summer that she and I share catching fireflies in a jar.....They grow up so fast...and she is my youngest!. It is nice that she is not in as much of a rush as the rest of my other kids were to grow up and be on their own. I am savoring this time.

Enjoy "Fireflies" by Owl City!