To Be What You Want to Be, Stop Wanting and Doing….
Do. Have. Be. Do Be? To Be? No I am not talking about the Doobie Brothers. Or Hamlet. I’m talking about the struggle we have in ourselves. We all want to Be something, right? Be happy. Be wealthy. Be beautiful. Be calm. Be secure. Be loved. Oftentimes it feels...
Are You Stuck in a Creative Rut? Three Ways to Get Out
I stared at the blank page so long I started to see Rorschach figures in the white. I had writer’s block bad. There was nothing to write about, nothing to say. My life was either too confidential for mass consumption OR it was too boring. (likely the latter as the...
Time Stressed? 5 Hacks for an Additional 30 Minutes Each Day
Everyone is time stressed. Waking up earlier just borrows time from the evening. I’m on a mission to focus more but even focusing requires time on the calendar. Afterall, I need a good 30 minutes to get into “Flow state” for anything whether it’s playing with my...
Why you Should Stop Everything and Do this ONE Thing for Success.
I'm a Type-A success fueled being. But over the years that desire for success has meant I try to do 100 things at the same time. Deep down I knew I was taking on too much. I was trying to balance taking care of my amazing almost-4-year-old with A very busy career...
Stop Being An Angelic People Pleaser
I’m reading the book, The Girl with the Louding Voice. It’s about a young Nigerian girl who longs for education so she can find her voice to stand up for herself. She stops being a people pleaser so that she can please herself. Unlike the protagonist in the story, I...
What Should Your Legacy Be?
My friend Carrie had escaped cancer. (hurrah!) However during the surgery and wait to find out if the mass was malignant or benign there was time, too much time, to think. Legacy. Purpose. Love. All the things we question when we face our own inevitable mortality....
How to Do the Whole30 Diet with a Toddler
“I like your stomach Mommy,” said my daughter Vivi. It’s all squishy.” Like many, I had Pandemic Body.™ But that wasn’t why I started the Whole30 Diet with a toddler in the house. Sure I was squishy but I was also slow, irritable and had regular rosacea breakouts...
How to Survive (and Enjoy) Going to a Wedding Solo …
Going to a wedding solo, without a date, always feels a bit uncomfortable. Kinda like you are the clownfish in a sea of coupled up lovers and schools of old friends. I just went to a wedding in southern Idaho where I only knew ONE person, the groom. The groom always...
Frazzled Coping Strategies – What to Do When You Lose your Phone (Again)
Do You Feel Like Beaker from The Muppets? I Do. Some might call me frazzled. Others, an overly imaginative soul. They are not wrong. I am chronically afraid I left the burner on, the door unlocked, and lost my phone in the toilet. No, not because I am OCD (have you...
Are Your Memories Real, Even When Disputed by Family?
Dueling Memories I’m back in Montana with family. One of our favorite pastimes is to recount old stories and memories of our late relatives, those loveable yet fallible characters that came to Montana for homesteading, gold, and other adventures. Of course, because...
