Some friends attended Oprah’s “O You” event in Atlanta this past weekend and I’ve heard wonderful snippets from their experience. Lot’s of inspiration and great speakers, an elevator ride with Nate Berkus… a positive-energy crowd, I bet it was an amazing day! One statement that Oprah made, as reported by my friends, is sticking to [...]
TTFN
Dear Friends, I’ve chosen to take some time off from this blog. I will be with you in spirit as I read your entries and cheer you on. I will probably be taking plenty of risks, so I hope I’ll have a lot to report when I return. But, as I wrote in my last [...]
Today’s Risk: Lessons of a Birthday!?!
What an interesting day, a birthday can be. My friend Jim counsels me to “live into the feeling…” and so on this my 54th birthday, I am going to try living into this very feeling for this very year and hopefully even beyond. And I would certainly call that a risk. This lesson learned from my [...]
I don’t know what the headline should be this time . . .
The life I’m living right now and the place I find myself right now aren’t feeling very good. Even as I write that, I know that life itself IS good, it’s just not feeling very good to be in the place space in which I find myself right now. Why? Because I don’t know what I want [...]
Sally O’Malley and I are 50!
It’s my 50th birthday – that’s right – today, December 20th, 2010. I feel sure my experience of turning 50 isn’t all that different than that most. I feel 32, and when I look in the mirror, I see… someone else. I’ve been familiar with sagging from the collar bones down for much of my [...]
Healing Relationships
Last night I had the most phenomenal evening with a wonderful group of people I never expected to be a part of again. I was invited by my former husband’s family to a very large family dinner and ‘football night’. This, in and of itself, may not seem like a big deal to many people [...]
Silencing the Voices in My Head
There they are again … those voices in my head that want to drag me down. They’ve been showing up a lot lately, tormenting me with hateful questions and comments like: Who am I fooling? Who do I think I am, thinking I could ever accomplish something like that? Why would anyone listen to ME? What makes ME [...]
Here a Risk, There a Risk, Everywhere a Risk-Risk… Ee-i-ee-i-oh!
Seriously. I have been taking so many risks lately that my main risk muscle – my heart – should probably enter one of those muscle mass contests! So as I sit down to write my post today, I must remind myself that this is about a risk I am intending to take – one that [...]
