What’s on your nightside table? I have several books all the time that I am working on. Right now it’s Eve by WM.Paul Young, Euphoria by Lily King and Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson. I have always loved books and reading because it is fun but bottom line it makes you smarter! March is...
Award winning Columnist and Photographer | Alisa Murray’s Living The Sweet Life Celebrating a Very Happy 10th Birthday! November 2015
Ten years ago Micheal Fredrickson called me after I wrote about creating artistic spaces for children for one of his other publications and stated very matter of factly “ Alisa, you are a writer!” I laughed at him and said “well…I graduated with honors from University of Houston!” He then asked me if I...
Alisa Murray’s Living the Sweet Life featuring Russo’s Italian Coal Fired Kitchen January 2016
It is always nice to find a spot that almost every time you walk through the door you run into a friend. Russo’s Italian Grill is such a place as there have been many a Sunday after church or a weekday afternoon that I drop in and not only always find something perfectly prepared...
Living the Sweet Life : I’ve been thinking,worrying,wondering,praying and hoping you’ll see….
There’s an old saying that some call “THE GOLDEN RULE” It’s been everywhere for such a long time. No one can tell me they haven’t heard of it before because you can plainly see it’s in all religions and thoughts about humankind. Buddhism Hurt not others...
Houston Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweetlife” | July 2015 | “A Love Story”
Once upon a time in a land called the Carolina’s there lived a little boy named Brian and a little girl named Alisa. They went to school together…played in the school yard together and rode the same school bus home. In elementary school Brian held Alisa’s hand when she cried and missed her mother...
Houston’s Award Winning Columnist | Alisa Murray’s “Living the Sweet Life” June 2015 | #alisamurray
Living The SweetLife : Thinking about your Transition June 2015 So I want to get you thinking about something that most of you will not want to do. I want you to start thinking about what you want to happen when you are no longer amongst the living. Recently I...
Living the Sweetlife : A Beautiful Responsibility
I really like wearing a cape (figuratively speaking of course!) and given the opportunity to be a super hero at anytime in my life has, and I am sure will continue to be, ideal. Now, my time has come! Many already know that as the children have grown in my family client base...
Things to do | Alisa Murray’s Sweetlife column |November 2014
Thanksgiving 2014 Things to do right now….. Order a bunch of clothes and toys Drink Wassail Eat candied apples and sausage balls Eat chewy peppermints Make and Eat chocolate pecan (pronounced Pee-Can) pie Bake lots of cookies especially the peanut butter chocolate ones that’s Brian’s favorite Make a list Play Buble’ Holiday album Place...
Go ahead and RAOK them!
Random Act Of Kindness The past few weeks and months have just been horrific. From Stony Brook to the bombings in Boston, to the recovered kidnapped women held against their will for years and years. It seems that everywhere we have really bad people amongst us. Here’s some facts according to me…. I figure...
Spring and Renewal of Spirit
Spring is coming “The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you, don’t go back to sleep!” Rumi Now I always know when it’s happening. I am awakened before dawn by the crisp chirps of the morning birds near my windows. They call to everyone who will listen that Spring is coming. If I...
Lesson Number Three
Working hard is mandatory You can be slow and steady or like a bat out of hell but working hard is mandatory It’s always interesting when you get to talking with people about success. Some think the person that shows up and does what they do and repeats this everyday is more worthy of...
Lesson number 2
“Write Love on Your Heart!” As we are working on being the best we can be this year together I have broken down three ways I see the world living. One is to live a life filled with panic and anxiousness, stirred by worry and stemmed at it core from not loving oneself and...
Lesson Number One
Be Quiet and Listen Perhaps Martha Beck put it best, when asked about her favorite quote it was not from some journal or complicated literary work but a simple and yet so very true life lesson from none other than Winnie the Pooh! Here’s what she said… “Winnie the Pooh. There is a scene...
Everything Old Is New Again
Introducing “Darling Dames! Ive been noticing that every now and then, our society does a flip backwards. For me, this realization started with the Old Spice man last year that boasted a man doing “manly” things, in a subtle way, trying to put men back in their place. Amusingly so by having the questioned...
Finding Your True Colors
Understanding Your Abilities and Aligning Them With Purpose. Oprah said, “Life is a big ol’ canvas. And, you have every combination of colors to paint with.” If I had been asked the same, I couldn’t have said it more perfectly. Over the years, I have spent quite a lot of time studying human psychology...
Sisters, We Ain’t Alike and We Like It That Way!
Being Different Makes No Difference School is starting again, and my sister has to explain to her boys why their cousins have to wear those uniforms that are scratchy, buy a bunch of school supplies that are expensive and even leave to go to a school at all. I just roll my eyes. Those...
Focus on 2008
Its January… again. I know, I know already what ya’ll are thinking. Oh boy, time flies and what are the “plans” for this next year. January, like no other month, always pressures me to make promises to myself and others that by September I realize should have never been made in the first place...
An Ode to Our Old Dog Named Earl
About Old Dogs and Children I once read a book about old dogs and children. Somehow, life always come down to that. The very old and the very young are perhaps the most interesting of us all. Dogs are for many “old souls”. In particular, when they enter the home and assume they are...
Focus on The Art of Doing Nothing
The Art of Scheduling Nothing Ahh, the last dog days of summer. I can hardly comprehend how fast time flies by! I just got a newsletter from our school, it stated: Welcome 2007-08 school year. (?) Wait… did i just read school year??? I can not BELIEVE it is already that time of year...
Focus on Miracles
Miracles happen. Really they do. In fact they actually happen all the time but most times we just don’t notice them or more importantly recognize that’s really what they are. What you believe about the inter workings of life events directly influences the perspective of how a miracle is perceived. Take for example the...