One trick to squeeze excitement out of dread

One trick to squeeze excitement out of dread

“I can’t wait for this to be over.” We’ve all had a thought like that when it feels like we’re drowning in the middle of a dark moment in life. Those thoughts aren’t the actual experience we’re having though. They are what we are thinking about the experience we are...
Crystal Clear

Crystal Clear

Happy birthday to me! If you’ve known me for a while, you know I always choose a birthday word. September 13 is almost here, so it’s time to choose what will guide me on my forty-seventh trip around the sun. “Clarity” has risen to the top. I don’t often pause for...
The Power of Virtual Community

The Power of Virtual Community

I’ve spent the last couple of years building communities on Facebook. Most of them have been temporary. They were put in place as support for people going through my 21-Day Heart Cleanse. They’ve been really amazing groups of (mostly) women with the courage to be...
Worthy with failure

Worthy with failure

The biggest F word of my life has been Failure. Up until recently, I treated that word the way some people treat the other F word. When it came to myself, I NEVER said it. In the first part of my adult life, I didn’t say it because it just wasn’t an option for me....
If Casseroles Can’t Fix This, What Can?

If Casseroles Can’t Fix This, What Can?

I heard terrible news a few weeks ago. Awful, devastating, heart-breaking… the worst kind of news. But someone else’s news. My pain was my heart breaking for a friend. It was the projection of how profoundly this will affect people. And it was a realization of how my...