There are only a few days left before Christmas. It can be so easy this time of year to feel overwhelmed, overbooked, overworked, overscheduled, and overdone! When my to-do list has more items on it than I could ever hope to accomplish (at least until I magically turn into Super Mom or find Harry Potter’s […]
Recently I was flying to a conference several states away. As the flight attendant was going through the typical pre-flight announcements, I admit I wasn’t closely listening. I mean, we’ve heard the same “buckle your seatbelts, your seat cushion can be used as a flotation device, look for the nearest exit” speech for years every […]
A good friend of mine recently told me that she’d heard an interesting story on NPR about the process trees go through each autumn. We generally think that leaves fall off the trees in fall, but that’s not exactly accurate. In a nutshell, as summer wanes into autumn, deciduous trees create a specific hormone that […]
As long as we’re all sharing time here on Earth, we will experience disappointment. From being turned down for a sought-after job or date, to favorite teams losing the last game of the season, to the coffee shop being unable to make our regular drink, to having a highly anticipated event cancelled at the last […]
There are things in life that need to be done, but simply aren’t pleasant. So we tend to procrastinate and put them off for as long as possible until we absolutely. have. to. do. them. Anyone else? My iTunes music account falls squarely into that category. See, as a musician and music therapist, I naturally […]
We have a fairly decent sized backyard, and most years we use about 1/4 of it for a summer vegetable garden. We grow tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, zucchini, yellow squash– the usual suburban garden fare. The easy stuff. I’m almost convinced that I could simply hold a zucchini seed above the ground, and within 2 days’ […]
We’re all afraid of something– spiders, heights, snakes, horror movies, dogs. There are certainly some genuine, serious phobias– but that’s not what this post is about today. Today’s blog is about fears that run emotionally deeper than worrying whether or not I’ll find a spider in the neglected pile of cardboard boxes in my garage. […]
It started off as ‘one of those days’…. You know the kind– husband home sick with a cold, daughter has a meltdown before you even leave for school, you can’t figure out to save your life how to convert a jpg file to print ready pdf, you wait 15 minutes on hold for the doctor’s office […]
I had a whole other blog post planned for today, but it will have to wait until next week. Sometimes that happens, right? You make a plan, and then something else comes up that’s more compelling. Notice I said ‘compelling’– not distracting or disturbing or irritating. Compelling, which (I think anyway) means it’s something that […]
A few years ago as part of my GIM training program, our class participated in a sweat lodge. Since another woman and I would not be going into the actual lodge during the sweat, we had a bench placed several yards away. It was on the edge of a pond where we could pray and […]
