The Ambition of Authenticity My partner and I had a conversation recently wherein I “admitted” the older I get, the more I realize how...

The Meat Pan Story The mind is slow in unlearning what it has been long in learning. –Seneca I don’t recall when or from whom I first...

Where Ideas Find You My first book is called Six Degrees to Your Dreams, representing the six degrees of connection theory – how we’re...

Hold the Vision Elizabeth Gilbert’s book Eat Pray Love is one of my favorites, and I can’t count the number of times I’ve watched the...

My Special Mac & Cheese Recipe Here’s a gift from COMFORT FOOD FROM THE HEARTLAND: Recipes from a South Dakota Farmer’s Daughter, my...

The Beauty of Matching Silverware I just had a rare weekend to myself while my partner was flying kites for two and a half days at the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrX8L34-i8U A Glimpse Back Stage: The Community of Theatre Not long ago, my fiancé and I ran into a...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYCljUwipks Find Your Three Things Who among us hasn’t had worry keep us up at night? It could be a...

Get Your Brains Working Together: Creativity in Collage A colleague recently told me she wanted to do something about the neural pathways...

Start a Godwalk Practice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNSqwV7nBOI Free video tip #3! Once two mothers told me, within the same week,...

Identify Your Word and Turn it Around Ta-da! Free video tip #2, with the same title as this post. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bK0r...

Stay in the Thriving Zone This concept – which I mentioned briefly in my interview with Barry Dennis 1/5/15 – is so important to...

All My Training Products are Gluten Free I remember when the low fat/fat free trend in food products began in earnest. Suddenly my...

Five Simple Steps to Speaking Your Truth – Part 2 4.) Know what’s yours to voice. There are a lot of injustices in this world. Animal...

Speaking our truth requires vulnerability – we have no way of predicting the reaction to what we share. I feel self-conscious writing this post for just that reason. Yet it’s often the only way to open a channel for growth and change. The other person or people involved (whether a spouse or a boss) isn’t a mind reader – she or he won’t know what we’re experiencing unless we share our experience. And HOW we share our experience, right down to the wording we choose, is a huge f

Sneak Preview of Coming Attractions It feels like time to give my loyal subscribers and readers an update on the projects I’ve been...

Small, Consistent Steps: A Vocal Practice I’ve experienced both ends of the spectrum…times I was so busy with what I ‘had’ to do that I...

Make love at 2:00 in the afternoon on a Wednesday.

I was the only person in the store one day when a young man walked in. He seemed cagey, excitable, and the hair on my body stood on end in his presence. He stayed in the store looking haphazardly at things until all the other customers in the store had left. He then engaged me in conversation. A voice inside my head seemed to scream, “He’s going to steal your purse!” He spoke mostly in monolog about a number of things, and I became more and more uncomfortable with each word

Find a Weekly Wish-Weaving Partner Part 2 Once you have found the appropriate person to be your weekly WW partner, here is the format...