The Power of Culture: From Family Traditions to Business Success
Culture is as important at home and in the office. When my daughter Vivi returned from her two-week adventure out east with her dad’s family last summer, we both felt the "missing" deeply. But we turned that longing into something positive by creating a list of all...
Patience is Better than Botox
🎂 Tomorrow is my birthday. 🎂 No I am not going to go off and get botox... As I get another year “younger”, I’m deeply reflecting on how I want to evolve. It’s never too late for reinvention or growth. In fact, continual change can help signs of aging more than botox....
The Power of Unplugging: Why a Vacation Boosts Success
I recently returned from a European vacation with one huge milestone — I went without my work laptop. Yes, you read that right. For the first time ever, I left my Mac behind and turned off Slack. At first, it was tough to shake off the Type A urge to be constantly...
Why You Should Love, Not Loathe, Your Baggage
Hold on to your baggage–it is what defines you, not destroys you. See the world, love deeply, embrace the pain that has shaped who you are.
Looking for True Love? Find Your Tribe
We can create our own family. And we can find romance with our friends. According to the Greeks, philia or tribal love is the highest form of love there is.
How to Make a Rainbow Out Of Motherly Love
“To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow.” -Maya Angelou My daughter loves rainbows, so I want be forever arching with colors for her. She doesn’t yet know that rainbows are more...
Is Passionate Love Worth Your Sanity?
I’ve been reading through my old writings, you know all the ones about passionate love and passionate love lost. They made me slightly famous, after all, back in the day. I wrote these essays and poems as a single woman living in San Francisco, passionately seeking...
I’m Sick of People Preaching “Self Love” and Here’s Why
“Now is a time for self love,” said the bead-wearing yogi instructor. “Prioritize yourself, love thyself.” I was on a retreat trying to replenish my identity after separation and new single mamahood. “Take time for yourself.” “Do what YOU want” says, like, everyone....
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...