We All Need Support When We Get Stuck
This weekend I did something embarrassing. By myself in my kitchen, while the boys were playing video games and my husband was jogging, I...
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- Feb 28, 2022
How Do You Create For Yourself?
When I was recovering from covid, I would retreat to my bed with my laptop. I was on a mission to tell how we made it to Italy and back...
- Feb 21, 2022
Pick the Right Mountain to Get in the Zone
One of the most joyful experiences is being in the zone: when you’re so involved in an activity that everything else disappears. Worries...
- Feb 14, 2022
Change is the Elixir of Life
A lot of us live relatively sedentary and predictable lives. Everyday we roll out of bed and putter over the same circuit of roads, the...
- Jan 31, 2022
To Feel Alive Again, I Dance
Sometimes I feel I’m walking through life like an automaton. Get up early and boil the tea, kiss my husband and do yoga on TV, wake the...
- Jan 24, 2022
I’m Still a Baby Writer Inside
I have crow’s feet, age spots, and routine colonoscopies, but inside I’m a baby. Let me explain. As many of you know, I’ve been working...
- Jan 16, 2022
All You Need is a Thread!
Trips, sicknesses, and other hub-bubs can fray healthy habits we weave. I find changes in routine to be invigorating, but they can also...
- Dec 13, 2021
Don’t Let Go Even When You’re Apart
Every time I take a break from my memoir, I think it’s no big deal. I can’t work all the time, after all. But once I go on that trip,...
- Nov 29, 2021
When I Am Supported, Everything I Do Has Extra Bounce
A powerful leader, business-owner, and spiritual guide once told me she regularly relies on therapists, diversity coaches, mentors, and...
- Nov 22, 2021
Start the Day in the Dark with Your Creative Love
When I was raising young children, I heard about moms who would get up at 5 a.m. to write. They were virtuous, whereas I could never pull...
- Nov 11, 2021
How Do We Mother Ourselves?
The taskmaster in my head is the worst person to have around when I’m trying to create. She’s gripping a yardstick or a calendar and is...
- Nov 1, 2021
How Do We Metabolize the Violence We've Consumed?
On the day after our wedding anniversary, I woke with a slight hangover. It wasn’t the wine, because I don’t drink anymore. Or the...
- Oct 25, 2021
What Books Accompany You Up the Vine of Life?
I once had a self-help addiction. I’d hide my books on the gifts of imperfection and letting go of fear and the secrets of the enneagram...
- Oct 18, 2021
Be Like a Solar Panel: Save Up Rays for Cloudy Days
I feel a little sad on cloudy days. When the sun goes away, it’s as if I am operating at 80% power. I feel sluggish and more pessimistic,...
- Oct 4, 2021
What If My Biggest Idea Was Only the Cork?
Volumes have been written cataloguing the fears that block writers from finishing their novels. For me, it's been three years that I’ve...
- Sep 27, 2021
We Animals Need Each Other
When my cat Frankie found me in my room, he mewed as if to say, "Here you are!" and then jumped up on the bed, positioned his body right...
- Sep 20, 2021
Leave One Thing Out So Intuition Can Come In
When we loosen our grip even just a little bit, something else can step in to guide the way.
- Sep 11, 2021
We Need Each Other to Create
We have a deep need to be known, seen, and heard. It is joyous to be creative. Yet so often we get bogged down by self-doubt, fear,...
- Sep 9, 2021
I Go at my Own Sweet Pace
When the kids went back to school, instead of rushing into my long-neglected book project, I decided to try the turtle approach. If I...
- Sep 6, 2021
Focus on What You Love
When I started feeling overwhelmed by the idea of revising my book draft, I decided to try the Marie Kondo Japanese decluttering...
- Sep 4, 2021
Gather What You Do Best
Focus on your strengths and ignore the rest, I've heard say. So instead of reworking a draft full of stuff that makes me groan, I...
- Sep 1, 2021
This Machine Will Save Me
After long months of avoiding my memoir, I was both terrified and excited to work on it again. The key to my success, I decided, would be...
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