Love Yourself as you Are

For the first year ever, I’m not sending out holiday cards this year.  I just couldn’t make it happen in time.  I had plans to take the “perfect” picture that were foiled a couple times [...]

I hit a wall last weekend.  There had been news reports that perhaps this virus situation could last eighteen months, and I was feeling, frankly, despondent.  I spent a day and a half really [...]

I love giving compliments. I’ve made a conscious effort to notice good things about people around me and point them out ever since I was in college.  But I’m not as good at letting [...]

Christmastime is my favorite.  I love it so, so much.  Though, when I was growing up, my mom insisted that we wait until Thanksgiving was finished before beginning Christmas festivities [...]

There was a Winter Family Sing-along at my son’s school this morning, and I did what I always do.  I have this thing where I tend to shed tears almost every time I’m at an event at my kids’ [...]

Let me start by telling you a bit about myself before I had my daughter. I was your classic, Type-A overachiever who desperately wanted everyone around her to be pleased with her at all times. [...]

I sat down to meditate last week with a heavy heart.  The news of the past few weeks was really bringing me down, to be honest.  My morning had already begun at its typical pace— a speed I’d not [...]

This picture was taken five years ago.  It was a happy day on the beach with friends in the waning days of summer.  But time is so wild it feels like it might have been two weeks ago.  Or ten [...]

Our 16 Days of Kindness Challenge began on Monday and is making ripples far and wide.  I have heard from people I know all over the country who have been inspired by it and are joining in, with [...]

I agreed to go to a glassblowing class with a friend a few years ago in Santa Barbara, and it turned into a big mess.  I had never thought of trying glassblowing before, but my friend was so [...]