About me...MLC


I am....
  • an Usui/Karuna Reiki Master Teacher
  • an Adult Basic Education/Literacy Teacher
  • a stress management/meditation coach
  • a Shamanic Practitioner
  • a Roman Catholic
  • an Akashic Records practitioner (who's slowly coming to terms with the veracity of it)
  • a lover of crystals and all things sparkly
  • a cancer survivor
  • a wife & mother (transitioning to my empty nest)
  • a tail end Baby Boomer/beginning Gen X'er depending on the list you look at
  • a native Clevelander (Go Tribe! Cavs! Browns!) though not a sports fan ;)
  • a dis-illusioned voter
  • a conscientious omnivore (reformed junk food junkie - shouldn't have worked at McD's as a teen - 'twas there the addiction began!)
  • teacher, healer, seeker & reacher
  • extremely ordinary & just like everyone else
Favorite quotes:
"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn & relearn." Alvin Toffler, futurist

"Guide me and heal me so that I may be of greater service to others" William Lee Rand

"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'." Yoda 



"If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice..." Rush ("Freewill", Permanent Waves-1980)

"Most things which are urgent are not important, and most things which are important are not urgent." Dwight Eisenhower

"We talk religion in a world that worships the bread but does not distribute it, that practices ritual rather than righteousness, that confesses but does not repent." Joan Chittister

"No one finds time for prayer. You either take time for it or you don't get it." Joan Chittister

"If the people will lead, eventually the leaders will follow." Joan Chittister

"The highest result of education is tolerance." Helen Keller