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Jun 22, 2023 “Don’t Talk About My Friend Like That…” A few years ago my friend Sarah was running herself down in front of her boyfriend. This aspect of her body wasn’t correct…that one was awful…etc. Her boyfriend’s response? “Don’t… Read More
Jun 8, 2023 No Before Yes? Yes, Please For some time I’ve been meaning to write a post on my instinct/pattern of saying “No” before I say, “Yes.” And this is not just “No” to big asks. This… Read More
May 25, 2023 Sacred Mistakes Ahead (and They’re All Mine) A few weeks ago Salvador Dali contributed the day’s “Wow, That’s a Thought.” He said, “Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature.” This idea on its own was thought… Read More
May 11, 2023 To Give is Human; To Receive, Divine Many of you have heard Alexander Pope’s famous quote, “To err is human; to forgive, divine” This is a true and lovely sentiment AND today I am using it as… Read More
Apr 27, 2023 Are You Being Ignored? Or is it Ignorance? This past weekend, I had the opportunity to totally lose my marbles. Afterword, during a conversation with a friend, I said, “I feel like this has been coming for awhile.… Read More
Apr 13, 2023 Having a Grey Day? Keep Your Eyes Peeled I am lucky to live near the ocean. Among the joys it offers is a multitude of ‘moods’. Some days are picture-postcard beautiful. Some days have a spooky-gloomy beauty. Regardless… Read More
Mar 30, 2023 Don’t Ruin the Whole Load… While the debate over whether separating laundry into lights and darks is worth doing continues to rage, I thought I would send along the meme, above. Why? Because while I… Read More
Mar 2, 2023 “I Can’t Hear Myself Breathe…”: How to Head Off Weirdness, Sadness and Madness More mornings than not I find myself saying, “I can’t hear myself think,” as the dogs gambol about me, the television news confronts me, and our particularly vocal cat, Thelma,… Read More
Feb 16, 2023 Thinking of “No” as “Next Opportunity” The past two weeks, I have been lucky enough to travel through Vietnam and Cambodia. One of my favorite things has been meeting brilliant, kind, and funny people—among them a… Read More
Feb 2, 2023 When—and Why—One Sock Can Steal Your Sanity… and What to Do About It As is the case with many of you, my days are busy. Work, school, Dolly-the-demon-hound… And while I would love to report that at the end of each day I… Read More

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