My biz partner, Tricia, and I call each other every morning and talk for ten minutes. We don’t gossip or talk about our work tasks, but rather, we check in with one another to share how we are feeling, intentions for the day, or the chattering voices in our heads that may be keeping us from...

Hi folks! Sorry for my silence. I fell into a delightful time warp in Ohio while visiting my mom. You know, squirt gun fights and bonfires (yep, s’mores!) and a drive-in movie (bad rain!) and an old-fashioned amusement park. I’ve been feeling so much like a kid again (thanks to my...

I’m not exactly sure how it got started, but I keep a “Joy Book” — an album of things that make me happy. There aren’t any rules about what kinds of things can go in my album; I just started out with photographs that made me smile (like the one of my son and me, which...