Polite Conversation
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, which happens to be my favorite holiday. My best friend and I have been excitedly planning the menu for weeks. I always enjoy a surprise, non-traditional dish, but I’m not disclosing until dinner. (The suspense is killing you, I know.) Thankfully, I’ll be in a completely conflict-free zone. The only possibility…
Quitting and Beginning
I was about to quit. Perhaps you know, earlier this year I fell into a period of darkness. It was a crisis of faith that pushed me to question not only my chosen calling, but also the entire set of beliefs around which I formed the life I currently live. The rushing stream…
The Tyranny of MINE
What I teach has been around for a really long time. Like, thousands of years. Sure, I deliver it from my sassy, irreverent voice that loves big words, poetry and metaphors, but the reality is that very little (none?) of it is MINE. For a girl who gets whole body tingles from creating new…
Shattering Limits
Dearest One, I wrote a book in 12 days. Not a skimpy, pamphlet-like self-help book, but a start-to-finish novel of 288 pages (for the writing inclined – 62,000 words) with a spine-tingling connection to the characters in my previous novel. The story came to me in a series of dreams. Out of nowhere. During a…
The Inspiration Project
What’s been brewing in your world? I’ve been feeling that expansiveness of a shift in seasons, that tickle that manifests as giddiness, distractibility and even resentment around responsibilities. I want to splash around in rain puddles (plentiful in both New Jersey and Seattle), plan a summer vacation and write sexy poems. Taxes, homework, and meetings…
I Am…
I am… I am crazy, funny I wonder about the future I hear the whispers in the winds I see the mermaids tail swooshing in the water I want to be happy I am crazy, funny I pretend to be a wizard I feel the unicorn’s horn brush my back I touch my dreams…
Fear, My Frenemy
This post is a part of the Summit Blog Tour, which leads up to the Soul*Full Summit hosted by Catherine Just. I’m thrilled to be a part of an event that empowers entrepreneurs, artists and creatives to take action toward their dreams while helping create more opportunities for people with Down syndrome. You can join…
Secondhand Enlightenment
My best friend started losing his hair. During the two decades we’ve known each other, his hair has been a constant source of concern for him, but recently the process accelerated. In response, he lopped it all off. The odd thing is that I’ve also noticed a shift in his personality to accompany his new…
Art-n-Soul Retreat: Centering and Creativity
An artist and a yoga teacher walk into a bar… “Red wine for me”, says the artist, “and a martini for my friend here.” I’m tired, they both say with their eyes. “My life needs more color”, says the teacher. “What do you think of covering ourselves in body paint and ecstatic dancing on a…
Declaration
I found it recently – a picture of me, off in the distance, my wispy white blouse slightly lifted by the soft breeze, arms raised holding my brand new camera and attempting to capture the river, the trees, and the sunset beautifying our evenings. The woman in that photo looks like the real deal, I…