The Risk of Asking . . . and of Getting an Answer

| May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments

During a recent telephone conversation with a very dear friend of mine in Atlanta (where I used to live), I was reminded about the risk of asking God/Spirit/The Universe a question.  The answer can be yes, it can be no, or it can be maybe/not now.  I’ve certainly heard (and learned!) that lesson before, but it [...]

I don’t know what the headline should be this time . . .

| January 31, 2011 | 5 Comments

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 [...]

UH, OH . . .

| August 31, 2010 | 14 Comments

Growth means change and change involves risk, stepping from the known to the unknown.   ~~ Author Unknown ~~ Well, now I’ve gone and done it . . . taken a HUGE risk.  Yes, I take risks all the time, some of them larger than others, but this one is REALLY huge.  I submitted my [...]

The Risk in Authenticity

| August 12, 2010 | 2 Comments

It doesn’t sound that hard to “be yourself”. But I have spent a life time with that very notion. I love being around people who let me be myself. I am working spiritually on being my best self. I love it when people I hang out with are comfortable enough and in the right mood [...]

| July 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

Well, our time in Evanston/Chicago, Illinois has come to an end. For those of you reading my blog for the first time, my husband and I took a summer sublet here, although we live and teach at Western Illinois University in Macomb, Illinois, a small rural town near the Iowa border. Earlier I blogged about [...]

Boomerang Babies

| July 17, 2010 | 0 Comments

So far, I have just one. A boomerang baby is a baby you care for and nurture until s/he’s grown, send out into the world when it’s time, only to have him/her return home again. And again. And again. Mmmmm hmmmm… Funny thing is, I was wondering what I was going to write about this [...]

carpe-ing the diem~~

| June 15, 2010 | 4 Comments

I had a funny moment of enlightenment lately (and I nearly missed it)~ A solid, accessible option for a restoring-kind of Saturday Day Trip, and I almost let it pass me by. Lucky for me that the universe grabbed me by the lapels –like that great Mary Engelbreit illustration– and said “Snap Out Of It!” A friend had [...]

Toot My Horn (revisited)

| June 11, 2010 | 2 Comments

Last year I blogged about tooting my horn. As a massage therapist who is self-employed the only way to have income is to work. Making myself known is imperative. Why is it so hard? In this missive I will try to give an update to that call to action. I don’t need to tell anyone [...]

Risking Growing Older (gulp)

| January 13, 2010 | 1 Comments

Risking Growing Older …And the truth is for many, many, many folks, I’m not that old.  You know, it’s funny:  in the detective books I read (Baldacci, Palmer, de Mille) when there’s “an old sage, weathered detective” in the office they always say, `she is in her fifties…’ At 52 and now on the other [...]

I see you

| January 11, 2010 | 3 Comments

It was risky but I did it.  It may not sound like much, but I went to see Avatar.  This is a movie that I have heard about for months.  It is getting rave reviews and it is causing such a stir in various conversations. I had severe reservations.  Not the least of which was [...]