This morning, a knock at the cottage door awoke us. Andrea is, and always has been, better at rousing from sleep so she sprung from bed,...

Recently, I shared on social media that I am enrolled in a 4-month, trauma-informed Breathwork certification program with Breath of Gold ...

The first week of May, I spotted this post on Facebook... I hadn't run in a long while, but I’d been thinking of running for weeks. Of...

Yesterday, in my personal email, I received an email from a place that recruits for private equity firms. They had a CEO job and my first...

Sometimes, when I’m slogging my way uphill through shit, I remind myself that thousands - probably millions - of people before me have...

This fit. January began innocuously enough - a pickleball lesson. Then a trip to Florida to visit my former CEO and his wife. Both the...

Each year, I choose a word of the year to focus on. It’s my intention for the year. I order a bracelet from the website My Intent and...

This morning, I was thinking that it was Toyota who promised a “December to Remember” - but it was Lexus. So I’m not sure how memorable...

“He died.” I say to Andrea as the northern neck whirs past the windows of the Jeep. “He did?” Andrea said - more a statement, than a...

As I crawled into bed last night, I said, “December’s been interesting.” “Oh - is that what we’re calling it?” Andrea asked. It was...

Andrea and I are on a vacation that our past selves booked in July 2023. Our past selves must have known our present selves would need...

This year, I’ve been part of a women’s group led by Catherine Andrews. I’m not entirely sure how I came across Catherine. What I do know,...

Approximately 2 weeks ago, the heaviness descended and, although I didn’t want to admit it, I knew. So I wasn’t even surprised as the...

We spent much of today cleaning our house. I was wondering how it got so bad and the simple answer is neglect. We’ve spent time working...

There are times I feel a sense of anxiety - foreboding. Then, usually something awful happens and I feel awful about the awful, but I...

Every time I think I’m going to graduate myself from therapy, life life’s and I think, “Well. Maybe now isn’t the time.” But really -...

Today was a jumble of activities. It was over jumbled. This, of course, was my own doing. I had a coaching client - I don’t have many of...

The weather in Virginia is a con. Last weekend, I was in Hillsboro, Virginia with members of what has been re-dubbed “the woo woo crew”....

50 years ago today, at 11:39 PM, a chubby baby girl was born - weighing in at a whopping 9 lbs, 12 oz. It’s unlikely this was the reason...

Today’s weather is perfection. Really. Often in Virginia, rain comes through and there is no respite from the heat after the rain...