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Saving the Worms

Two weeks ago I was out for one of my long, long Saturday walks. It had rained the night before. I looked down at my shoes and saw worms wriggling on the sidewalk. Oh, no. I have this thing about worms...

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A Short Post about Overwhelm

Today’s blog article is short, because it needs to be in order for me to do it. I’m overwhelmed. Well, I was overwhelmed earlier today. I’ve had family visiting from out of town for the past ten days,...

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Creative Ebbs: Not the Same as Stuckness

If you think about any relationship you’ve ever had, you’ll notice that there were phases to the relationship. Sometimes you were sitting on the couch shoulder to shoulder eating cookie dough ice...

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Getting clear on “success”

Too often we are vague about our definitions of success. We don’t really clarify what we mean by “successful,” or we take on somebody’s else’s definition (maybe a family member’s) and work toward it...

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Pausing is not the same as stopping

Sometimes it is incredibly, excruciatingly hard for me to step away from something, when stepping away is exactly what I need to do. Step away from that phone call that is not going anywhere and...

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Five things I’ve learned about trust

This is my second post for The Declaration of You BlogLovin’ Tour (scroll to the bottom of this post to find out more). This is the final week of the tour, and the topic is Trust. I used to think I...

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What if you didn’t need a reason?

Last week, I was talking with the wonderful business coach Kristin Stevens, and I kept telling her about various things I wanted to do, and prefacing them with, “For some reason.” “For some reason, I...

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Trusting the deep pull inward

Looking back over the past twenty years of my life, I notice that times of a lot of external change were usually preceded by a deep pull inward: a period of maybe a week, or two, or more, where I...

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Recognizing your options (all of them!)

I was talking with an old friend of mine the other day and we remembered a situation we’d been in during college. It was a crappy situation, but we didn’t do anything about it. “What the heck were we...

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