these are the words and thoughts that get me through life. thanks for letting me share them with you.
My 2018 Theme
When something feels right, it's interesting how it brings a calm inside. It might not be logical or easy to explain to the outside world, but it just is. I like to have a "theme" for the year; something to anchor me. I struggled a bit to figure out what that was...
When you’re mean to your mom
Earlier this week I snapped at my mom in a really derisive, ugly tone, "I really don't need the smart-ass comments." She asked me later what it was she even said that I considered to be the offending statement. Her comment was not meant to be unkind ~ it was actually...
On Being Brave
My word for 2017 is BRAVE. I can remember this time last year trying to decide what word could possibly sum up how I wanted to face 2017. And here I am 12 months later feeling very sure I lived the word BRAVE. For me, this doesn't show up as some one-time event that I...
Crossroads
Sometimes there's a crossroads the direction a choice made for us or maybe by us. Sometimes we see the crossroads; feeling the weight of the decision clearly pointing North or East West or South. And later. Looking back through a lense of experience wondering what if...
No guilt about being human
Today marks a week since one of the most magical times of my life. I went to California to a business/life retreat ~ 6 women and our coach who put us on the hotseat, quite literally because it was 100 degrees in LA and there was no a/c in the house. But it wasn't...
How the timer stole my joy
I'm not a liesurely waker upper. Whether by alarm or naturally, I go from sleep to awake faster than a Lambourghini on the Autobahn in Germany. And then my mind goes out into the day way before my body does. I could be awake for 2 minutes and my mind has already time...