These Days Call for New Gentleness
On Day 2 of the quarantine, I realized I had to switch up my game plan. My daily game plan is usually centered around me working from my home office …
What You Do When the Room Goes Still
The other day I was at my younger daughter’s volleyball game. She’s taken up the game in the last couple of years and enjoys competing. She’s particularly good at serving. …
Why We Panic On Vacation
We live in an age when even taking a vacation is a challenge. Think about that. What strange times these are. In a study this year by LinkedIn, more than half of …
The Downside of Being Your Own Boss? You’re a Hardass
One of my favorite truisms is “How you do one thing is how you do everything.” I see the truth of that statement reflected in the way I drive. I …
Four Words designed to ‘disturb the universe’ of me
I have spent my life being a mouthpiece for other people. That is not a bad thing in my world. It’s been a clear vocation for me since I was …
Love in the age of comparison: Raising a human to feel, to fight, to survive
In many ways the human mind seems to have a bias against itself. Here’s what I mean: when confronted with a comparison of oneself to another person, we automatically err …
Gimme, gimme: Less stuff, more spirit
How do you feel about presents? I tend to like them. My favorite categories: Surprise ones. In-honor-of-no-occasion variety. Simple and tremendously thoughtful type. My least favorite short-term but most favorite …
An Excellence Addict calls her own bullsh*t
First, a positive thing. I would like to think in my forty-plus years I have gotten good at taking my time and trusting my process before I commit to something. …
Who Do I Think I Am Fooling?
About a week ago, my husband and I were having some wedding-anniversary inspired downtime by a pool. We were discussing destinations we would love to travel to someday soon. I …
The Magic of Three Hundred and Sixty of Something
Three-hundred and sixty of something is mostly a lot. Particularly when the thing you’re measuring are collections of days. Days being 24 hours tied together under a paired collection of …