It’s all once-in-a-lifetime, baby!

If you've been following my blog, you know that my dear friend, Maya Stein, is on a journey of lifetime, called Type Rider. She's traveling by bicycle from Amherst to Milwaukee, trailing a vintage blue typewriter behind her. Every day she visits a new town and...

Been there; done that? (No siree!)

I want to tell you something I'm really jazzed about. But this comes with a warning: be aware of the "been-there-done-that" squirrel chatter that will probably arise. I've been watching lately how that ole chuttering in my head (chatter + muttering)...

Get Outta Your Smarty-pants Head!

A couple weeks ago I told you about an upcoming writing class that my friend, Laurie Wagner, is launching. The online class is called Telling True Stories and it is about what happens when we "get out of our smarty pants heads" and tell our stories in true,...

Can you trust yourself?!

Have you ever thought about how you learned to trust yourself? (Or whether you've learned to trust yourself!) I've been having some great conversations lately with people about how they learned to listen to and act upon their own inner wisdom. It's no...

Make someone great.

"Make someone great."  That line/philosophy was passed onto me this week in my mastermind coaching call. I can't stop thinking about it. It is so simple, yet so absolutely amazing as a life practice. A compliment. An offer of help. A surprise...

Where would you look?

I've been lying low the past number of weeks. The combination of a life-changing Zen retreat and the death of my grandmother have left me rather speechless. Extraordinarily quiet. Listening. When I returned a few days ago — from the trip back East for the...