Self-care

Do you ever feel like your life is not following the linear plan you had in mind?  That it seems, instead, to be taking these windy, rocky roads filled with brutal bumps, steep hills and cavernous valleys?  Perhaps you’re in survival mode, grabbing on to anything that looks Read More

The other day I was on the phone with my friend Mary.  As I passionately paced around my apartment I urgently described to her a new and, if I may say so myself, brilliant idea I had.  In the midst of expounding my creative genius, Mary boldly interrupted me and asked, “Why Read More

A few weeks ago I walked by this sign to the left.  The bright colors and bold message demanded my attention.  I have to admit that at the time I was  not experiencing anything close to relaxed, nor was I  feeling like “it was all good”, yet I knew this was an Read More

I was walking my dog today and came upon this sign.  I immediately knew it was a message and also a metaphor for what’s been present for me over the past few months. I’d been feeling disconnected from myself.  I had let my morning practice go, I’d not been Read More

Dear 30’s, It’s the day before my 40th birthday and I was thinking about how I wanted to spend it.  How could I make this day as memorable as possible before I leap into a decade that fills me with a huge amount of excitement and a tiny hint of (hopefully healthy) fear?  And then Read More

My friend Tony was asked to do something in a meeting that personally filled me with dread.  Just thinking about this duty ignited my inner chatter, “I’m so happy she picked him and not me.”  “There’s no way I could do that, nor do I want to.”  “That’s definitely someone else’s Read More

I can’t stop thinking about this sweat lodge tragedy that took place in October during a workshop given by spiritual teacher, James Arthur Ray. Did you hear about it?  Three people died and nineteen others were hospitalized with various injuries after they spent two hours in a Read More

After innocently sending an invite to someone I knew long ago in business to join one of my many social networks, I received the most scathing, loathsome, and nasty email ever.  It seems, based on his choice language, this person has been holding on to some serious resentment Read More

My clog-wearing friend, Cricket, lives on the fourth floor of a walk-up with marble, uncarpeted stairs.  The other day she reached the bottom of the stairwell only to discover that she had left something in her apartment.  She turned around, ran back upstairs, grabbed what she Read More

I have a new hero.  His name is Tony.  This man knows what he wants and knows how to get it.  It’s intoxicating to witness. In a meeting a few weeks ago people were excitedly talking over each other.  Then a calm, yet confident voice rose above it all and with the most Read More

It usually takes me a good solid year – okay three years – to follow a trend.  I held out on buying UGGs and the iPhone because I thought UGGs were, well… ugly and the iPhone was for the kids. Then two things happened:  1) My winter boots fell apart, and 2) I left my corporate Read More