Lesbian Parenting: What’s the Risk in That??

By Lesley Brogan | March 10, 2010 | 2 Comments

When  my partner Linda and I had been together for nine years, we decided the time had come for us to have kids; we wanted our family to grow.  Easier said than done, really, on so many levels.  And after many talks — including our extended family and friends,– we met and talked with our [...]

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Lesley Brogan is tethered to her village. The middle daughter of a middle daughter, she and her partner co-parent two boys (11 and 8) with their two dads. Life rarely seems easy, but in it, there is energy and wisdom -- and, it seems -- just enough humor to get the village through their days.

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Failing or Succeeding

By Lori Buff | March 9, 2010 | 2 Comments

The end of a regular paycheck is nearing. At the end of this month I will no longer have an employer but will be working for myself making pottery and building websites.

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Lori Buff is a successful artist and website designer from East Atlanta Village where she lives with her partner and three dogs. Lori enjoys working in the garden, riding motorcycles and doing volunteer work but when she's not busy running around, she can be found engrossed in a good book.

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appropriate risks ?

By Janie Cook | March 6, 2010 | 1 Comments

I don’t know who wrote this short bit of wisdom, but it popped into my mind the first time Laura mentioned Risk-a-Day to me, so I searched until I found it.
To laugh
is to risk appearing a fool.
To weep
is to risk appearing sentimental.
To reach out for another
is to risk involvement.
To expose feelings
is to risk [...]

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Janie Cook is a retired teacher who lives in Austin, Texas with her husband, Gareth. She shares her days with family and friends (a precious privilege), facilitates a bereaved parents’ support group and enjoys digging in the Texas Hill Country dirt & learning about natural gardening.

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The Grace of Gradual Change

By Kory Wells | March 4, 2010 | 8 Comments

I think we all know that any REAL risk will push our comfort zones, but I’ve realized in the past few weeks that some zones are more uncomfortable than others.
Consider my January daily audacious goal to write or edit a poem five days a week. I was excited about it, many of you were kind enough [...]

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Kory Wells would like to say she brazenly tossed aside her twenty-year career as a software developer to forge a lucrative career in poetry. She’s content to report that she now writes poetry, prose, corporate communications, and the occasional snippet of software code in a life-work balance that functions pretty well most of the time. Author of the poetry collection Heaven Was the Moon, she’s been recognized by Ladies’ Home Journal for her “standout” writing in the anthology She’s Such a Geek. Visit Kory's website.

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The Risk of Choosing My Religion

By Tessa Lemos | March 2, 2010 | 6 Comments

The Risk of Choosing My Religion
Have you ever been afraid to look too closely at something because you may no longer be able to accept it despite its flaws?
When it comes to religion, I never made a conscious choice.  Instead, I inherited it.  My parents are and always have been active members of the same [...]

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Tessa Lemos is a Chicana who grew up and was educated in the Pacific Northwest, blossomed in New York City, and now lives in Nashville where she continues to learn and grow. She is a lawyer by training, administrator by profession, and organizer by habit. She spends her days with her children and her nights with her husband and squeezes in the words as much as possible.

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Oh No – Is It Really March First?!

By Melissa Dickson Blackburn | March 1, 2010 | 2 Comments

You got me bloggin’ babes. I’m scrambled, scrambling, scramed – is that a word? I’m too busy to make hay or horsetails and I don’t know what I’m talking about.
In brief – a fellow poet asked me to be her PR Flack. I said – Hey – RISK IS GOOD! So I am her [...]

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Melissa Dickson Blackburn is a Mother, Poet, Visual Artist, Blogger, Marketing Director. MFA Poetry candidate at Converse College. MFA, Painting from SVA, NYC 1995.

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Sun-kissed stroke

By Laurie Cook Heffron | February 28, 2010 | 7 Comments

I used to be in the tippest, toppest of shape. And that “used to” feels like yesterday. But it certainly doesn’t LOOK like yesterday in the mirror. And let’s be honest, it was over 15 years ago.
In the mean time, I’ve had my bouts of disciplined exercise, although they’ve been short-lived. I was a short-lived, [...]

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Laurie Cook Heffron lives and plays in Austin, Texas, with her 2 small, sweet rascals and their pop. Laurie is also a social worker and works at The University of Texas at Austin, integrating research and practice in the field of interpersonal violence. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger in her younger years and enjoys gardening, languages, swimming, and hiking with her family.

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For Crying Out Loud

By Martha Carnahan | February 26, 2010 | 9 Comments

When Olympic skater Evan Lysacek won gold in men’s figure skating last week, he cried with joy.
His coach, however, was embarrassed by such an outward show of emotion. Coach Frank Carroll was quoted in the New York Times as saying, “I kept wanting to say, ‘Stop it, just stop it.’ I’m very stoic in a way, [...]

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Martha Carnahan coaches entrepreneurs, leaders and marketers in the professional services world. She has noticed that taking risks, whether bold and scary or seemingly small (and easy to avoid) creates a fresh awareness of the joy, audacity and quiet reverence of a full-spectrum life. Its not just about doing more stuff its about hanging out more in the sweet spot of life. Visit Martha's website.

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Taking On a New Client

By Micki Dharma | February 25, 2010 | 9 Comments

As a successful, semi-retired health and fitness guru, I’ve decided I can take on one more client, as long as she’s not too much work, as in: undisciplined, unmotivated or a whiner. She has to be willing to listen and be approachable when it comes to altering her lifestyle in order to achieve her intention. [...]

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Micki Dharma has returned to the beginning: "for in the beginner's mind the possibilites are many, whereas in the expert's mind the possibilities are few." After numerous walks of life, anywhere from that of a banker, to a non-denominational Christian minister, as well as a clown and a yoga teacher's teacher in between, she is at "square one" again. Coming along with her on this new leg of her journey are a loyal husband, two intriguing adult sons and goddess-girlfriends who remain ever supportive even though they have plenty of reasons to roll their eyes or mutter "Oh this ought to be interesting..." -- but never do -- at least not to her face!

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The Risk of Juggling

By Carolyn Cook | February 23, 2010 | 2 Comments

Right now my life feels like a circus act.  I have two major professional projects going, my daughter is turning 13 at the end of the week, my mother needs my care and attention,  and I’m on deadline with some collaborators.
 I chose each of these circumstances.  I have chosen to be head-over-heels in professional work, [...]

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Carolyn Cook is a sometimes peaceful, sometimes frazzled individual who works to manage a household, homeschool a daughter, build a marriage, and explore the human condition through theatre. She is an actor, director, producer,and teacher, and serves as education director of Théâtre du Rêve, a company she founded in 1995 (more info at www.theatredureve.com).

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