Take Out the Trash – Say Goodbye to Garbage-Speak This past week an intersectionality of coincidences took up my bandwidth, providing me with key learnings… What the cuss does that mean? A friend sent me an article on how… Read More
“When the Flower Blossoms it Sends No Invitation” This past Saturday I was deadheading roses and inadvertently cut a bud, so I placed it in a vase to watch it bloom. Life intervened, and I ended up being… Read More
The Eyes Have It   As you know, “The ayes have it,” is how a majority rule is announced. This post is about our physical eyes, however—and of the extra work they can do… Read More
Use Your Temper as a Tool This past week, the Director of an organization with which I am involved in a volunteer capacity sent me an email so riddled with condescension and contempt it took my… Read More
No Need to Step on the Brake—Just Take Your Foot Off the Gas Last summer I was driving with my super cool nephew (that is he, pictured above, flying an F/A—18F Super Hornet) when he remarked, “Why are people so quick to step… Read More
“Wicked” Rehabilitated the Reputation of Witches—I Will Now (Attempt to) Do the Same for Stepmothers When your father announces at the age of 72 that he is remarrying it is natural to think, (among other things) “Well, this could go either way…” Outside my brain,… Read More
Assisting Others is Great—but Leave Them Wiggle Room Over the past few weeks I have slowly but surely been teaching my super-patient husband, Keith, how to assist me in various yoga poses. The other day as he was… Read More
When Anxiety Runs Amok, How to Put Others at Ease A few weeks ago Keith and I made the decision to sell our kayaks. Last Friday we cleaned, measured, and photographed them, then listed them on a few websites and… Read More
Distance Selling? Zoom In and Close the Deal For many people, the best and easiest part of selling their product or service used to be when they would hand it to the potential retailer/buyer and say, “Here, touch… Read More
These 4 Words = Quarantine Chaos (Guaranteed) Hello and how’s everybody doing? While some of you may be finding the “new normal” is starting to feel, well, normal, others of you may be contemplating space travel.   In… Read More