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May 28, 2020 “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
May 21, 2020 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
Apr 9, 2020 “What We Speak Becomes the House We Live In” Years ago, I was lucky enough to be introduced to the Persian poet, Hafiz, whose book, The Gift, contains the following poem: What We speak Becomes the house we live… Read More
Mar 19, 2020 Resources to Help You Set, Meet—and Exceed—Your #QuarantineGoals Greetings from my home office Wow-of-the-Week-ers, Like many of you I’m writing this post from home. And, like you, I’ve been giving a lot of thought to how to best… Read More
Mar 5, 2020 “You’re Going to Do What You’re Going to Do Until You’re Done Doing It” Have you ever been in a situation where – despite what you think, know, or feel, you “should” be doing—you keep doing the thing that makes you nutty? I have,… Read More
Jan 9, 2020 Patience, Young Grasshopper, 2020 is Only One Week Old I don’t know about the rest of you but I’ve spent the first days of 2020 feeling discombobulated/stressed/blue. I’m thinking this is partly due to the additional hoopla surrounding this… Read More
Jan 5, 2012 Work is Worship: “Slowly, Slowly, All is Coming” Fourteen years ago I was traveling with my father through Sikkim, a land of many marvelous customs (Consider, for example, that their national dish is made with orchids.) Among them… Read More
Oct 20, 2010 Wow of the Week: Play it Up We all know the phrase, “play it down,” for making less of an emotion or situation than we might otherwise be feeling. And I think this can be a useful… Read More
Aug 17, 2010 SILENCE THE CRITICS IN YOUR HEAD 3 Pointers My new article on Maria Shriver’s The Women’s Conference: Although “Innocent until proven guilty” is the law of the land, I find many women more than willing to judge—and convict–… Read More
May 19, 2010 HOW TO MANAGE Your Expectations My new article on Maria Shriver’s The Women’s Conference: Over the years, one thing I’ve slowly, painfully, learned is the importance of distinguishing between someone letting me down and my … Read More

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