Spring. It may not feel like spring today, depending on where you live. In fact, there’s a chance I could wake up to snow. Yet, somehow, my crocuses and daffodils seem to know when it’s safe to show up. They’re okay. It’s their time for...
I did something out of the ordinary this week. I went to see a movie with my girlfriends. We all needed a break from real life to relax and have fun. The "scenes" before the featured film showed regular, everyday people becoming Superheroes, seemingly overnight....
Crazy isn’t it, that we are six months into the New Year? Here is my question: any of you make some type of resolution way back in January to-- Eat better ...
Welcome to a NEW YEAR, and the possibility of a NEW YOU. The thing that is fun about the beginning of something is the hope that it can be better—that WE can be better. The other side of that thinking is that MOST people are...
So many times in life we think, “If I can just get through this crisis, or away from this job, or away from this person,” everything would be great! Right? Not so much. We have heard the phrase many times, “It’s always something!” and it is....
One of the really cool parts about our humanity is our ability to feel…so much. Like, the warmth of the sun on a summer day in July, and a cool breeze off the Lake. Or, the soft rain on our skin when we get caught...
I recently spent most of my days sitting and “being.” Reading anything of substance was merely an exercise of moving my eyes across the page. Nothing would sink into my brain. I could work puzzles…easy Sudoku and a few crossword. Even my Bible lessons seemed...
And you cannot see. Anything. Dense, thick, dark fog surrounds you and yes, you feel like you have been swallowed. Now what? Fear, anxiety, anger, impatience. The list goes on. The fog may come as illness, depression, addiction, death, abandonment. We all have been swallowed at...
We spoke today of goals for 2013. Since the discussion occurred in the midst of a networking group of professionals, we chose primarily our business goals. Thinking about setting my life in a forward motion based on some pre-set ideas and “goals” feels a bit...
Why is it the weeds always grow better than the vegetables or the flowers? I find myself in my small vegetable garden these days, searching for the tomato and pepper plants which are lost among the weeds. After digging around for what seems like days,...