By Gaynor Word-Smith Resilience is not simply the ability to survive a difficult experience or a set of circumstances, instead it is an...

By Gaynor Word-Smith My maternal grandmother, Sophie, constantly reminds me to find her lost parents. Whenever I am in danger of giving...

By Gaynor Word-Smith A line in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel, Uncle Tom’s Cabin reads: “The heaviest anguish often precedes a return...

By Gaynor Word-Smith Image courtesy: PWA Rome When we think of leadership, we tend to think of the leaders within our communities,...

By Gaynor Word-Smith There is a Buddhist proverb that says “In each loss, there is a gain. As in every gain, there is a loss. And in each...