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Finding Moments of Peace
How are things in your world? Wherever you are, and however the world is in your immediate environment, I hope you'll find a glimmer of peace. Mine have come during walks or when appreciating my new office mate (Oliver, right) while teleworking twice a month...
Five Good Ways Not to Let Crisis Rule
There are times when we scrape to find the good. For me, the current pandemic hasn’t always been one. As an introvert who balances the want for time alone with the incessant need to please people around me, there have been built-in gifts. More time to work. To walk....
The Covid Cleanse/What To Do When Clutter Sparks Joy
It’s well over a month into the worldwide hunkering down. How are you filling your time? It’s been a perfect time to pare down the embarrassing quantities of photo albums and old letters of the past forty-plus years that I’ve...
Managing Menopause and Quiet during COVID-19
How are you doing? I learned the hard way how universally panicked we are regarding the COVID-19 pandemic. I was standing in line at the grocery store recently, the standard six feet away or more from the next customer, when I felt a hot flash coming on. Reflexively,...
Author interview with Rebecca Scott Duvall of Sensational Kids, Sensational Families: Hope for Sensory Processing Differences
If it feels like I posted this interview before, it's because I have. It was among the lost work that resulted when my website was updated recently, and now, I'm including some bonus details. Author and mother Rebecca Scott Duvall has launched her book, and it's a...
Author Interview with Lisa Boucher of Raising the Bottom
I met the multi-talented and award-winning author Lisa Boucher of Raising the Bottom: Making Mindful Choices in a Drinking Culture during a book promotional event, and was immediately impressed by her passion to reach the world with an often unpopular message about...
The Habit of Happiness
I’d been meaning to round off my first chapter in Thriving, Decoded by not simply talking about Adverse Childhood Experiences and the things that may have shaped the lens we see the world through, but to take a look at how wonderful things that happened to us...
Five a Day/Training the Mind Toward Gratitude
I’m not certain in which book, blog, or podcast it was that I first learned about the Five a Day plan. Find five very ordinary things in your life that right this very minute you are grateful for. Then say them, either out loud, or in your head. Maybe a good...
Looking Back to Move Forward/Welcome 2020, Marie Forleo-Style
Greetings, and early Happy New Year! I hope your holidays are going well. More than the eve of a new year, today marks the end of an entire decade. To get in sync, I’ve enjoyed three of Marie Forleo’s bite-sized podcasts on this Decade in Review . In part one, she...
Creating Immortality Through Memoir
“Who do you think will play my part?” My dentist, Dr. McBratney, was helping me envision my happily ever after, just days after my children had been kidnapped and taken out of country after I’d arrived for my scheduled check-up. I had just wept a puddle of tears and...