Mar 9, 2022Member-only3 Kinds of HopeMaybe you’ll find one or two to hang onto. Have you ever been to a butterfly pavilion? I went to the one in Scottsdale, Arizona, years ago. It was just after I’d left a long relationship and the farm where I’d been living for six years. I was full of…Life Lessons5 min readLife Lessons5 min read
Sep 11, 2021Member-onlyJust Breathe: How to Reduce Anxiety in the Age of COVIDBy taking control of your own stress response to the crisis, you can carve out space for yourself to be calmer and clearer. I don’t mean to stress you out, but there’s a second pandemic going on along with the COVID-19 pandemic. …Covid-195 min readCovid-195 min read
Aug 24, 2021Member-onlyHow a Kickstarter Founder’s Decision-Making System Is Changing the WorldOne person, one decision at a time You’ve probably heard of Kickstarter, the website where people can raise funds to start businesses. …Decision Making7 min readDecision Making7 min read
Aug 1, 2021Member-onlyPausing for a Sense of Wonder Can Boost Learning and Goal AchievementFeeling a sense of wonder about learning or pursuing a goal is a way of celebrating in advance — and it can help you get there, too. Outside my house there’s a long, steep set of stairs to the top of a hill. Up there, you can sit at a…Productivity7 min readProductivity7 min read
Jan 27, 2020Member-onlyCalling Chocolate and Spa Days Self-Care Is a ProblemEquating self-care with entertainment or temporary fixes makes light of women’s real needs. Please understand, I’m not belittling spa days and chocolate. I love them too. I’m saying that we need a clear concept of self-care for women. We need to understand our real needs. We need to know that…Self3 min readSelf3 min read
Published in Martha: Self-care·Jan 25, 2020Member-onlyIf You Have Trouble with Self-CareSelf-care is a key to happiness, health, integrity, and good relationships. But it’s common to resist it — either feeling that other people are required to meet your needs, so that you don’t have to, or, on the flip side, feeling undeserving of or disconnected from your own needs. Self-care…Self5 min readSelf5 min read
Published in The Startup·Jan 13, 2020Member-only“Anything Different Is Good”I know a woman who rearranges her house constantly. When I stayed with her, I would leave to go out to a movie, come back, and all the pictures on the walls would be in different places. Or the furniture moved around in a new configuration. …Life Lessons4 min readLife Lessons4 min read
Published in The Startup·Dec 20, 2019Member-onlyHow to Do Something You Really Don’t Want to Do, But Have ToThere are times when something is staring you in the face and all you want to do is walk away — ignore the issue, hope it will go away somehow. Like, ending a relationship. Talking to someone about a sensitive subject. Confessing to something you’re ashamed of. …Life Lessons6 min readLife Lessons6 min read
Dec 17, 2019Member-onlyA Limited Budget Doesn’t Have to Keep You From TravelingIt breaks my heart when I hear people say they’d like to travel but they can’t afford it. Or worse, they’re older people and they say they WOULD have liked to travel, but they didn’t because of financial constraints. Many people just can’t travel, because of obligations and responsibilities, their…Travel7 min readTravel7 min read
Nov 30, 2019Member-onlyAdvice for Writers: 10 Takeaways from John Gardner’s “On Becoming a Novelist”“A wise and honest assessment of what it is like and what is necessary to become a writer and stay a writer.” (Raymond Carver) John Gardner was a novelist with an obsession for literary workmanship and a belief in the power of art to enrich life. He wrote fourteen novels…Writing12 min readWriting12 min read
