I’m feeling a bit jealous this morning. My brother, who is a writer and film-maker (among other things), has been posting a weekly blog for a year now for which he receives many likes and comments and pats on the… Read More ›
Reflections
The C Word
I run a women’s group every other Sunday called Women Reinventing Themselves. We’ve been meeting, now, for about a year, and each time we get together I find myself energized and excited and full of ideas and intentions for how… Read More ›
Enough!
With the recent passing of my mother, I have been in full retreat–from the media, from my routines, and yes, even from writing. Sometimes grief empties us and sometimes it fills us to the brim. This has been the… Read More ›
Silence
Silence is not the absence of sound, it’s the absence of noise – Gordon Hempton I don’t know about you, but when I was a youngster, I always had some kind of music playing, either on the record player or… Read More ›
The Four-Hour Workday
I know what you’re thinking. This is not possible. This is just another gimmicky headline, click bait, designed to draw you in and leave you disappointed. But hear me out for a moment. What is so impossible about a four-hour… Read More ›
Perfectionism Redefined
I’m at a serious cross-roads in my life. I have shed much of the weight of my previous life and career–active parenting of young children, a job that no longer fills me, the responsibility of building and maintaining a family… Read More ›
5 Questions to Ask Yourself as You Contemplate Change
For some reason, the theme of change has been coming up a lot for me in recent years. Actually in all of my life, now that I think of it, but of late the call has been insistent, and this… Read More ›
3D Living
I met my dear friend for lunch yesterday, and we spent the afternoon looking back on our lives–the ups, the downs, the mishaps, the adventures–as dear friends are wont to do. Things started off well-enough. We both agreed that, on… Read More ›
I Want to Be Number Two
Many years ago, my brother called me to his side and said, “Here, check this out.” We were both teenagers then, or at least I was, and completely into all things cool and clever. There, in front of him on… Read More ›
Reinvention: The More of, The Less of
I didn’t know I was doing this when I first began my reinvention in 2012, but the question kept simmering under the surface: What do I want more of, and what do I want less of as I move forward?… Read More ›