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One of my closest friends is dying. She was diagnosed almost two years ago with stage IV colorectal cancer and started treatment at M.D. Anderson. It was devastating news that hit me like a gut-punch, making it […]

In the vein of never being too old or too proud to learn, I shall share what an adult daughter taught me recently. I am from a family of talkers, a gregarious group that could almost all speak at once and […]

Fear is an emotion most of us would just as soon remove from our lives. I know I would! 

And yet fear can be such a useful thing. If it is not paralyzing, it can be motivating. If it is not intimidating, it […]

The tides are changing, Dear Reader. The tides in our World. In our Work. In our Ways of Being. And I, for one, am in awe of it.

I don’t always talk about the specifics of my work, but for some reason, it […]

Your world is closing in on you as you escape into the never-ending synapses of the firing of your brain as fear grips you when you hear the word “cancer”.  “Am I going to die?”  “Why me?”

I know my husband is […]

Fear was something instilled in me as a child. The ‘what ifs’ of nearly every activity was discussed until I gave up on even trying. What if I talked to that person? They will probably make fun of you and hate you […]

You can’t fool mother nature. And if you try, mother nature always wins. Which is why on this Earth Day, we all need to do our part to reduce our carbon footprint. This can also help you be a healthier eater and s […]

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself’, said President Franklin D. Roosevelt in his 1933 inaugural address – a phrase that has since become part of the pop culture. How true it is.

Think about fear […]

The language used to think about finances determines the mindset.  The language used to talk through financial plans clarifies goals and strategies.  And the language used to interact with others within wealth b […]

“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.” -Joseph Campbell

For much of my life, my decisions have been made through a lens of fear – fear of failure, fear of being alone, fear of following my pa […]

“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift.” – Albert Einstein

I have spent 10 years wor […]

Well, here I am days away from another birthday and incredibly grateful for the gift of reaching another year. Last year was such a devastating time, so many people lost to an illness that was sweeping the globe. […]

Ida B Wells, an investigative journalist, was born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16,1862, the first of eight children. She was born into slavery during the Civil War. The Wells family, as well as the rest […]

April is a month of newness, of change, and sometimes of in-betweens. On day one, we set aside time for practical jokes to fool anyone around us. It is like a wake up call from life saying, “Hey! Wake up! It’s tim […]

My fear was that I would never find home. I didn’t know that, of course.  That unnamed hole had been there so long it just seemed like a part of me.

I had been abruptly taken from my grandparent’s home in the […]

As I was growing up, I often had vivid dreams which I would recount at the breakfast table. There was one recurring dream which I remember to this day, at least a small piece of it and the message it delivered to […]

I decided to put myself in Time OUT.  Not anything I did wrong but my husband has been diagnosed with COVID.  We are insulated in a quarantine bubble in our home, away from those we love, those we care about, a […]