Guiding Values

Guiding Values


What happens when I structure my work to play to my strengths and values? If I live my life in this alignment, the answer is simple: flow and magic. Just as a clear mission, an inspiring vision, and thought-out strategies are all key elements of my business...
A Tattoo Where Paths Cross

A Tattoo Where Paths Cross

My daughter graduated from high school a while ago and moved 300 miles away. Our paths, in essence, diverged a bit. As she was preparing to move, I found myself musing about “paths” and what connections we create in life when our “paths cross.”...
Functional Community 101

Functional Community 101

Byron Katie teaches that there are, ultimately, only three types of business in this world: mine, yours, and God’s (please insert whatever term feels right to you here). She also teaches that much of our stress comes from mentally living in some place other than...
Doodling My Way to Rest & Play

Doodling My Way to Rest & Play

I found an old relic of a thought this week. It’s something my second-grade teacher said to me as I was drawing a poster-sized clown in art class, and it’s apparently been lurking in my creative subconscious ever since: “Real artists don’t...
Armor and Heels

Armor and Heels

A few years ago, I was faced with a most perplexing quandary: “What do I wear to go with Martha to the annual “O You!” event where Oprah’s O Magazine comes to life?”   I wasn’t asking what do I wear to go see my mentor, Martha Beck.  No,...
Lessons from the Horses

Lessons from the Horses

One weekend in May, I ventured to Scottsdale, Arizona for my second onsite training as an Equus Coach®. For those of you who know me, you know that the idea of being un-tethered from my computer for this long used to be completely outside of my comfort zone.  Prior to...