As I’ve mentioned, I am writing a memoir. As I write and revise, pieces move in and out of the draft. I wrote this segment on the evolution of my name a few months ago. While many of the aspects of it will be in the memoir, they won’t be strung together in an essay …
I had a conversation recently with a dear friend and colleague Susana Rinderle about the difference between entrepreneurship and freelancing. After our conversation, I went looking for more information about the difference and I’m so glad I did. Seth Godin explained the difference in this video. This one sentence articulated the clarified an issue I’ve circled around for years: “Freelancers …
I worked with several clients this week and although the specific issues they were working with were different, the general topic was similar. All of them are in a period of uncertainty, primarily related to their career. They are exploring: They live in different parts of the world and work in different industries, but they …
Recently, a 50-ish woman asked a question about why her energy was flagging in the Dragonfly Den Rapid Reading session. She has a health issue that is not life threatening but does require surgery. The answer the guides asked me to relay was applicable to most/all many midlife women, so I summarized their response below. …
We’re settling in. We’ve been in Tucson six months and I’m so glad to be home. We’re unpacked, have furniture in all the rooms, and they are almost all decorated. We bought that king sized bed I’ve always wanted and I can tolerate sleeping together again. The plants that came with me from Santa Fe …
As a coach, I was trained to ask empowering questions. Questions that made my clients pause and go deeper; identifying some awareness or understanding that lies just underneath the radar. Whether asked sweetly and with care or sharply, with laser-like precision, empowering questions get to the heart of the matter. One of the most powerful …
“What do you want? If you don’t know what you want, be prepared to be depressed;it goes with the territory. Wanting takes courage.”—Marshall Rosenberg I’ve been playing around with wanting this spring and early summer; giving myself permission to want. I had forgotten how empowering it is to want. To really listen to what is emerging …
I woke up this morning humming part of The Garden Song by David Mallett – the closing song at Betsy’s memorial service. The song describes how by taking small steps, mulching, weeding, etc., we can make our gardens fertile ground. Betsy, my mother-in-law, was deeply connected to nature. An avid gardener and bird-watcher, she tended …
