#Metoo
My general approach is to stay away from any sociopolitical topic on this blog. This week has led to an exception. The hearings for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and his accuser Christine Blasey Ford have compelled me to share
A Boring Life?
Those of you that know something about me may recognize that self-promotion is not something I am comfortable with. In fact, I think I’m allergic to it. I get all itchy and scratchy just thinking about it. I just like
A Call for Self-Compassion
Sometimes I think my brain is totally emptied of any thought I would want to share with other human beings. I wonder if this is the end of writing this blog. And then life happens. Today life happened in my
A Life Lesson I’ve Learned From Art
Art did not enter my life until my late thirties. Prior to that, I believed artistic ability was doled out to my mother and sisters only. Paintings, flower arranging, ceramic pottery, and creating garden design. They did them all beautifully.
A New Day
A new day. Wow. My first day with my new website. It seems like a business adventure to some. But to me it is about faith. As I dial down my practice and cut my income, I invested in my
A New Relationship
It’s funny to me how I think I have evolved so much as I travel this path of life. And then, a new opportunity opens my eyes to the potential to grow even more. One such opportunity was presented to
A New Season
Scrolling through Instagram, my eyes stopped at this quote, “Don’t live the same year seventy five times and call it a life.” Then my heart stopped. And my breath. Wow, that resonated with me. As many of my readers know,
A New Time
The moment my eyes popped open this morning I thought about how today was the beginning of a new time. For the first time in seven and a half years, I did not take a cancer drug this morning. Brightly
A Promise to Myself
Expectation is the beginning of all suffering. I have shared this Buddhist concept so many times in therapy as I help my clients learn how to be mindful, how to stay in the present. Mindfulness has been so powerful for
A Recipe of Grief and Gratitude… All Mixed Up
It is funny to me how loud silence can really be. But, last week a dear person asked me if I was doing okay because I had not posted on my blog in a while. I guess in this case,
A Rite of Passage
My love of TEDtalks led me to hear Bob Stein speak about A Rite of Passage for Late Life. Bob spoke eloquently of his need for rituals from a young age and ways he had created them for himself throughout
A Sacred place
I really, really hate that moment when I meet someone new and they ask me what I do for a living. While I know it is part of the “getting to know you” dance, it calls on me to disclose
