Beautiful You

It’s NOT about the cupcake.

As has become tradition here on the blog, every Valentine’s Day, I tell the same story.  It’s the story of one of the biggest fights in my marriage to BF.  […]

Share your thoughts on Passion. Purpose. Peace

Share your thoughts on Passion. Purpose. Peace

Are you in the greater Charlotte, NC area?  If so, I’d love your anonymous insight as I plan for a retreat offering for this spring.   Will you complete this […]

Pay Attention to What You Offer Yourself

Pay Attention to What You Offer Yourself

We’ve all heard the sage advice flight attendants offer about meeting our needs so we can then be useful in a dicey plane situation: if the plane loses pressure and […]

10 Things I Loved in January 2015

10 Things I Loved in January 2015

At the end of each month, I take stock of the previous month.  What went well?  What did I learn?  What brought me a simple joy?  These monthly reports are […]

Relationship Rehab

Relationship Rehab

With Valentine’s Day nearing, you may be thinking about how to make someone in your life feel loved. While you decorate with your kids or fill out cards to send […]

On Noticing

On Noticing

It is perhaps the simplest truth about the human condition but the hardest to act upon. In the end, it comes down to this: we all just want to be […]

Ignited. a manifesto

Ignited. a manifesto

Ignite. That’s no small word. And so when I chose it for my 2015 word of the year, I knew I needed to name it, to spell it out, to […]

Practice Matters

Practice Matters

We begin with an idea. A little shimmer of a thing.  A hunch that maybe if we try X or Y or Z it will have meaning for us.  It […]

a manifesto for this new year

a manifesto for this new year

A Blog Year in Review

A Blog Year in Review

  In my end of the year personal summit, one of the things that I looked into was what blog posts resonated with readers in 2014.  While my blog isn’t […]