Why You Should Love, Not Loathe, Your Baggage

Why You Should Love, Not Loathe, Your Baggage

I’m turning another year older today, complete with an extra gray hair, a spare wrinkle, and a bit of rumination on the past. What went right and what went so, so wrong with many events including some unblending of a once blended family. I question God, the Devil, and...
What Should Your Legacy Be?

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....
Five Reasons to Get to the Mountains NOW

Five Reasons to Get to the Mountains NOW

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.” John Muir As soon as we approached Auburn on the I80 and saw the Sierra mountains in the distance, something happened.The stress that had been...
Is this City Destroying our Community?

Is this City Destroying our Community?

“That’s it. I’m moving to Nicaragua. With all the tech douchebags in San Francisco, there’s no community anymore,” said my friend Robert. He plopped himself down into an armchair, sighing loudly to cushion the weight of his despair. Robert had enough IPO cash to...
Three Signs You’re Too Lazy For Love

Three Signs You’re Too Lazy For Love

During my years of singledom I blamed San Francisco’ urbanity, technology, and Peter Pan inhabitants for my interminable alone state. Then it dawned on me…perhaps the the dating problem wasn’t external…perhaps the problem was ME. Lazy, egotistical, impetuous me. If...