Turkey Dance and Family Magic
We passed the holiday torch several years ago when my mom admitted to me that cooking and preparing for everyone was getting to be a little much for her. I remember the feeling of being both anointed...
View ArticleThanksmas Weekend & Expanding Love
This year our family celebrated Thanksmas or Christgiving–depending upon your preference. Everyone flew or drove in to hang out at our house and celebrate Thanksgiving on Thursday, as scheduled on the...
View Article45 While 45 Update: 8 Weeks Milestone
Here I am, eight weeks into “being 45″ and ready to share my successes and failures. I figure any movement is progress. The most fun has come from planning dates with my husband. Life gets so busy we...
View ArticleTomato Soup and the Power of Creating an Experience
I read about 50 different blogs as the New Year was approaching and the usual goal setting, losing weight, recreating myself just wasn’t resonating–thus the delay in my 2013 “welcome to another year of...
View ArticleTime: It’s Limited. Who Deserves Yours?
There are so many fantastic things about working from home. Total flexibility. Guilt free access to snacks and coffee. Arriving to work in your slippers. Always having “good” toilet paper in the...
View ArticleI Saw God in the Bottom of a Bag of Lays
It was late. I was tired. And hungry. I was waiting for my teenage son to arrive home from an away basketball game–folding laundry and watching mindless, brain melting television. I rose and walked...
View ArticleThoughts. Words. Actions. Results.
“I don’t know how I was elected to pick up everyone else’s crap around this (insert your favorite curse word here) house,” I thought to myself. ”No wonder I can’t get anything done. The majority of...
View ArticleMake Love to Your Treadmill or Tuck in Your Belly
Yes. That’s TUCK, not suck. Today I’m being forced…yes, forced…to see myself out loud. I just tucked my “I’ve had three kids (two by c-section) and love Chardonnay” belly into my pants while sitting...
View ArticleWhat Have I Done With My Life? And other not so inspired musings on aging
Well, I think I may be nearing acceptance. My 45th birthday was in October and I’ve been steadily working on my list of 45 things to do while 45. Even I cannot deny, and I’m an expert in denial, that...
View ArticleLife Looking FUBAR? Look Again!
Growing up a perfectionist overachiever is hard work and even harder on the emotional bank account. The world doesn’t have to tell you what a screw up you are because you constantly find reasons to...
View ArticleTransitions: Ridin’ Side Saddle without the Reins in Your Hands
My dad always says to me, “A girl needs a plan.” I’ve been hearing this since I was a child. As a teen I rolled my eyes as he uttered the words and even mocked him a time or two. As an adult, I’ve...
View ArticleMotherhood: Our Privilege
Disclaimer: I wrote this particular blog in April 2012 and have been sitting on it all this time. After some recent conversations with women who are navigating the obstacle course of kids in their...
View ArticleFunk Prevention: How to Feel Alive on an Uninspired Day
I live for those days when the colors of nature appear brighter to me and birds provide a symphony of beautiful song. Nothing could possibly go wrong. I’m ON! I’m bringing my A-game to everything...
View ArticleFinal Update: 45 Things while 45
My 46th birthday has come and gone recently so I wanted to give a final tally for what I completed, what I utterly failed to complete, and what I discovered was important along the way. Here goes…true...
View ArticleLiving Love
Ned Gillium, a young First Christian Church minister with an edge, went to Mississippi in July of 1965 and assisted blacks in registering to vote. Widowed now, Ned celebrated 59 anniversaries with his...
View ArticleThe Unexpected Morale Building Power of Cancer
We were all shocked to hear the news. Cancer. He has cancer. I couldn’t say the word. It was like western Nebraska sand burrs on my tongue. I listened carefully as my friend and co-worker revealed...
View ArticleHow Does Law of Attraction Work?
As long as you are stuck in the problem you are repelling the solution. Let me give you an example. A couple of years ago I was meeting some friends in the desert outside of Yuma for a camping trip....
View ArticleHow to Water Fast for 3 Days
My Water Fasting Experience Days 1, 2 & 3 On day 3 of my water fast, I woke up rather alert and on edge. It was the first one in over a year, and I felt the familiar gross coating on my tongue and...
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The Anatomy of Manifestation
This is a map showing you how to get from where you are to where you want to be…
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Jamlo: An Ode to Anxiety
Earlier this year I experienced heinous, hype-beast level anxiety. The kind of anxiety that would wake me up out of a deep slumber, breathless and panting, and want to take my meager savings and move...
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