Harnessing Time as your Super-Power
Mastering Time: Strategies for Harnessing Time as your Super-Power 30 years ago, when I was dating Michael (aka when he was auditioning to be “Mr. Denise”) we challenged each other to read a book the other one chose. I made him read ‘Men are From Mars’ and he made me read ‘First Things First’ by […]
Choices and Change
Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is […]
Don’t Take Yourself So Seriously
Have you ever heard of the 20-40-60 rule? It goes something like this. In our 20s and 30s we spend a LOT of time and energy working about what ‘they’ think. Even to the extent that so many women in these years are carving up their faces and punishing their beautiful bodies in an attempt […]
The Facts of Life
The Facts of Life BY PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA That you were born and you will die. That you will sometimes love enough and sometimes not. That you will lie if only to yourself. That you will get tired. That you will learn most from the situations you did not choose. That there will be some […]
Don’t Wait
As we close out (yet another) crazy, unpredictable, I-don’t-know-what-day-it-is year, I’d like to share one thing I have learned. Life is long. Don’t wait to live it. So often we hear life is short. And it certainly is. It goes fast when you look at the big picture. But in the moments, life is long. […]
Today is Special
Holiday of the Grateful Heart by Danna Faulds I hereby decree this day to be the Holiday of the Grateful Heart, the perfect opportunity to appreciate and celebrate my life. May I see the whole broad sweep of my experience, all the peaks, valleys, and subterranean wanderings as the necessary steps to get me here, […]
What Are You Afraid Of
Here’s a fun fact about me…I am terrified of the ocean. I love to see it, hear it, wade in it, and be by it. But I have a great fear of being IN it. I am a mountain girl, who likes my feet on solid ground. I like control, meaning I like to see […]
Make Peace With Your Past
These words ring so true as we close out this roller coaster of a year, don’t they? As we look back on 2020, it would be easy to stay in the muck. There has been plenty to complain about, plenty to cause stress and worry. Maybe we can make peace, even with 2020? I learned […]
Do What You Love
#Truth. My truth. I am so grateful that for the last (almost) 40 years, I have gotten up, pulled on stretchy pants, and headed out to do what I love. I can honestly say that there has not been a time that it has felt like work to me. Even the hard days, when my […]
A Debt to Pay
I recently paid off a credit card that I have held a balance on since college. College! Against my Grandfathers’ advice, I got a credit card my first year in college, and went crazy with all that “free money” (and the high interest rate that came with it!). That was over 30 years ago, and I […]