How exciting! I responded to a direct message asking if I knew anyone who'd like to write a chapter in a new book called Wholehearted Wonder Women 50 Plus: Courage, Confidence and Creativity at Any Age. Me!!! I applied, not attached to whether I'd be chosen as a co-author or not. Lo and behold, I was selected, giving me the assignment … [Read more...]
How Awards Can Make Us Feel
Have you ever won an award? How did you feel? I hope you felt good. That you earned it. Or deserved it. Maybe you worked hard to achieve the award. Maybe you cheated your way there...oops...how did that feel? Write in to share your story of winning an award, and how this made you feel. The third book that wrote itself through my … [Read more...]
What Will We Create?
I've been divorced for a decade. Since then, I've been given relationships with dear men - Ben, Bob, Ron - who love me, adventure with me and teach me about presence, nature and more. We travel and stay in to watch Netflix. We eat out and cook favorites. We shell walnuts and hike trails. Last year upon returning from a healing, … [Read more...]
Slip-on a Second Chance!
When lilac displayed blossoms behind our house in the Spring, life was too busy for me to breathe much into her beauty. Realizing when she was through that I'd missed my chance, I imagined that I'd wait a year, and be more diligent and present to our young lilac bush in 2018. Lo and behold....we have had such a summer-like fall for the most … [Read more...]




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