It is a time to give thanks. A time for us to take a deep breath, reflect and honestly say, “thank you.”
Ok, so this is what we are supposed to be doing tomorrow, but how many of us will be surrounded by family members, some of them a lot smaller and louder than us, in a [...]

     We all move through transitions, intense periods of change that can lead to personal transformation. Whether we experience these periods as a tsunami or the continuous ebb and flow of a wave, each of us is up for life-altering movement in our lives. We can recognize that we are in a time of [...]

Emerson, Thoreau, Hawthorne, Alcott.  The best of the best.  By all definition, legends in the literary world.  I appreciate their literary contribution and find inspiration in their words as I navigate through my own personal journey in writing my book.
This past weekend I visited Boston for a conference.  For as much as I have travelled [...]

This month I lost my job. A job I enjoyed for over 13 years. Downsized, position eliminated, let go, released, the end…kaput. My last day is Friday, November 21st. I worked with several of my co-workers for each one of those 13 years. We’ve been through so many life [...]

According to Wikipedia, meditation is a mental discipline by which one attempts to get beyond the conditioned, “thinking” mind into a deeper state of relaxation or awareness. 
For the past year, I have practicing meditation.  I try to meditate for at least twenty minutes every morning.  It calms me and helps me put my life in perspective; [...]

There is so much going on with the world, where does one catch up? How does one choose to support one group over another? I sit at my desk overwelmed on how many causes are out there asking for donations. There is so many I wish to give to that it causes me to wonder, [...]

“I wish you a world laced with opportunities and possibilities. I hope that you will see obstacles in your path as bumps in the road; bumps that you can move over and around with ease, if you try.
I wish for you the ability to try, to take risks, and to negotiate opportunities. My mother often [...]

Somebody once told me that I would never make a good detective.  It was also the same person who said I should never play poker.  “It’s something about your face,” she said.  She went on to say it was the way I looked at people and how my thoughts or judgements about them became perfectly clear, [...]

…. to have those really hard conversations.  The kind of conservations that can either foster intensely deep intimate ‘getting to know you better’ moments or provoke insanely heated ‘you’re all dysfunctional’ arguments. 
It’s just that time of year when everyone wants to express their viewpoint about an issue.  Only this time, the candidates are not senators or governors, [...]

This image by Jana Vanourkova got me thinking about everything we say and everything we do and how it has an effect on the universe. We all have a ripple effect. Think about yours…