For My Reward, I Choose…..SHOES!
To celebrate my scramble success in Canada, I decided to spend my one good energy day last week buying shoes. Not dressy, rhinestone-adorned shoes. No, the shoes I wanted were hiking boots. Because I...
View ArticleFrom Tortoise to Butterfly to Adventurer – Using Photos to Reinforce Self-image
By the time I was 10, it was clear to me the camera was not my friend. Every photo showed just how shy and awkward I was. When the camera came out, I ran – quietly, so no one would notice. By the time...
View ArticleA Lending Library Without Checkout Cards – Questions and Inspiration from Manila
Questions can be dangerous. Exciting. Life-changing sometimes. Inspiration can be, too. If you want to see things happen, ask a new question, stir in inspiration, and shake. Sometimes the results...
View Article44 Acts of Kindness
Writer and Big Lifer Karen Alaniz blogged about celebrating her 49th birthday with 49 acts of kindness. What a great way to kick off her Year of No Fear! Late last night when I seriously considered...
View ArticlePaying Attention to Kindness is Like Buying a Car…with Water Metaphors
I notice when people do nice things for me. I was aware it happens a lot. But once I decided to perform 44 acts of kindness in October, I started noticing kindness everywhere. Kind of like when you...
View ArticleInspiration and Point of View – What’s Your Story?
I spent a good part of this month in the Ozarks on a writer’s retreat. Nothing organized – just me in a wonderfully funky Artist’s Cottage, a creatively refurbished carriage way station on a country...
View ArticleIntervention! The Shortcut from Overwhelmed to Back on Track
It’s been a hectic month. Between my husband’s (successful!) shoulder surgery, my own health issues, special projects at work and life in general, I got a wee bit overwhelmed for a couple three weeks....
View ArticleSnowballs of Dread, or Avalanches of Joy?
The winter holiday season in the US is like our football season…if football skipped over the pre-season & regular season & playoffs, and went straight into the fever pitch of 3 massive...
View Article4 Things I Like that are NOT About Christmas
I love Christmas. I do. But I don’t much care for a steady diet of anything, not even the Most Wonderful Time of the Year. To keep from burning out on Christmas carols before Christmas Day, I vary my...
View ArticleThe Perfectionist’s Holiday Survival Guide: 6 Tips to Tone Down Insanity and...
This month as you whirl from work to shopping to parties to laundry to recitals to decorating to the next thing to the next, trying to get EVERY LAST DETAIL RIGHT, do you feel the winds rising? Are...
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