~ Lately it seems like every time I check in with an old friend, I hear about how they've been going through some extraordinarily tough life experience during the last six months or so. I'm not sure what's in the air or stars, but I think a different way of approaching life is in order right [...]
[To listen to an audio version of this post, click here or search for "Again, but with Feeling" wherever you get your podcasts.] I was never the kid that dreamed of having babies. I didn’t make my dolls get married and live out the fantasy life of the nuclear family. I never dragged a stroller [...]
To listen to an audio version of this post, click here. For the last several months I’ve been battling a mealybug infestation in one of my favorite houseplants. It’s an awful icky plague that leaves white sticky residue and larvae all over everything. I diligently treated the leaves and stalks with insecticidal soap and wiped [...]
How is your New Year so far? Personally, this part of the year is always accompanied by a psychic darkness. I feel disoriented about which way is up, and I am constantly questioning each step forward, so much so that sometimes I just stop stepping. I start to feel trapped in a loop, like I’ve [...]
Those of us running businesses, working from project to project, or surfing the gig economy know that work naturally ebbs and flows – as does income and inspiration. When you are new to this cycle, the first big lull will probably freak you out. In fact, it took me 8 years of being in business [...]
HINT: It's not about you. Try this: Think about walking into a room full of higher-ups and proving yourself to them, your worth, your value. Feel the feeling of being everything you have in that moment. It’s just you and your ability to justify the air you breathe. You start to engage in conversation as [...]
