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For the past few years on New Year's Eve, I couldn't wait for the year to be over. They were years of struggle and challenge...

This summer, after years of both working in social media and having active personal accounts on Facebook, Twitter and Pinterest, a s...

When I got fired from my job in June, it pretty much knocked me flat. Not only had this been a job, it had been a calling. Add to ...

(This story was posted on "Maria Shriver's Architects of Change."  It is excerpted from my new memoir "Fire Season: Losi...

Last week I had “one of those days.” You know the kind, where everything is going wrong and everyone is on your last nerve. Work was st...

“A miracle is a shift in perception.” – Marianne Williamson I n my last post, I talked about the scientific fact that nature abho...

--> Letting Go of What Doesn’t Serve Me: Recently I read a story about a nun who had prayed every day for 30 years for God to ...

  --> "We can not solve our problems with the same level of thinking that created them" -Albert Einstein ...

  After sending out over 200 resumes and getting no response, in a moment of quiet desperation, a young woman named Vicki Harrison...

When I feel stuck in life, sometimes the simple act of letting go of old things, cleaning out a desk drawer, my closet, or my purse (which...

Sophia paints Evan's face Yesterday, my neighbor Lorie pulled me aside and asked if my son Evan had told me about the bench. “...

This is a blog about achieving a big dream one small step at a time, a philosophy I owe to an interview I read with author John Beren...

There’s a saying that people come into your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. I’ve found that to be true. I’ve also found that...

Last week was a tumultuous one. A lot of dust kicked up in the Universe on so many levels, all of it coming at me like a firehose in t...

“When you judge someone, you do not define them.  You simply define yourself as someone who needs to judge.”   – Wayne Dyer ...

I’ve been to more funerals in my life than I care to count. And I have sat bedside with critically ill friends at the ends of their lives...

The other day, Troy, Evan and I were in the mountains walking our dog Stitch when Evan developed a sudden fear of red ants on the ground....

Thank you for the gift you have given me. When I started this blog a year and a half ago, I was writing about the trials and tribul...

When I got the phone call that Seal Press had bought our anthology Dancing at The Shame Prom , I was cautiously optimistic. When I ...