Mina has been gone almost a week and people are asking me how I am spending me days. I have put my "Mommy-Hat" up on the shelf for the time being and pulled out the "Student/Professional-Hat." I have committed myself to finishing up my application to the International Coaching Federation and …
Busy Mom
Be Safe, baby-girl!
In one week, my baby will be flying over to Turkey with her dad. She and I are starting to have a difficult time as the reality of this comes close. She will be there for 16 days, in another country thousands of miles away. We spent the afternoon gathering things she may need: medicine in case …
“You are still you”
As I lay in bed this morning, I realized that I had been awakened by another bird, not normally around at this time of day: The Woodpecker. That woodpecker is such a determined bird, peck peck pecking away for everything it needs be it food or creating a nest out of a dead tree. Of course, …
BookClub Blog: Stopping: How to be still when you have to keep going
Last September my brain was a tizzy with all this things I needed to accomplish through the fall. I was constantly on the move and I was making myself (and my friends) nuts. One day, I spent the morning at the local thrift store and something fell off the shelf, hit me in the head, and landed (face …
Enough Room
So the only thing that matters is to incline one's own heart to love, because the person who loves is by nature lovable too. Yet if we love only because we want to be endearing, we succumb to the error of expecting results for our efforts. If an action is worth doing, then it doesn't lose this …