I love my long gray hair! Not because I think I look particularly fabulous, but because: a) I’ve had so much fun growing it long and watching the array of colors emerge – cost-free! Blond, gray, white, brown, such natural whimsy, an ever shifting display of color. It’s a constant…
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Feelings just are. I think I spent most of my life trying to manage my feelings. Born a HSP (highly sensitive person) and an empath, my world was a giant stew of sensory perceptions. If I had a brain, I didn’t have control of it, that’s for sure. My senses…
View More FEELINGS JUST ARE – Manage Your Thoughts, But Allow Your FeelingsFreeing ourselves from troublesome situations or behaviors is a skill not everyone possesses. We all experience times when things just don’t feel right and we are uncertain of what it is we need to change. At other times we know exactly what to do differently but we can’t find a…
View More GETTING UNSTUCK — How to Get a Handle on What Is Holding You BackThe day before my youngest son got married, his older brother announced that he and his family were moving back to NC. He’d got a new job. We were thrilled. I missed having he and his brother close to home and the 1,000 miles between us grew enormous once baby…
View More Simplifying and Downsizing May Just Be Contagious!
(I wrote this piece two years ago after the election. I’ve slightly modified it to bring it up to date, but the message remains very much the same today.) My first vote in an election was cast in the McGovern vs. Nixon race in 1972. Focused on my own young…
View More FACING OUR SHADOW AS A NATION AND AS INDIVIDUALS
Wedding of number two son has come and gone. Like all other big events in my children’s lives, there is a first and a last. Ups and downs. Joys and sorrows. Just like giving birth to them, I never much thought about any of it in advance. Sometimes I wonder…
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