Jill's Monthly Updates
If All Else Fails . . .
I write to you from the magic of Bainbridge Island. It’s early still and the scent of the salt air envelops me - so very different from the dry pine scents of my home. I hear coos of what sound...
How I Spent My Summer Vacation
For the past 5 weeks, my husband and I have been in the throes of a renovation project. We purchased a sweet little house that we plan to turn into a rental and we are trying to hustle our little...
Watch Your Language, Young Lady.
Summer always makes me feel nostalgic. I think it’s the season where we get to be most child-like and playful. I tend to recall memories that have been lost in the vault of age but I find myself...
Just BE It!
Have you ever heard yourself say something along the lines of . . . “If only I had this job, I would feel successful” “If only I had this much money, then I would be happy” “If only I had this...
Take Up Space
It’s been two weeks today since I bid farewell to the 10 stunning women I was so privileged to gather with at my annual Desert Women’s Retreat. I had planned to reflect and then publish my insights,...
The Roadmap to Your Soul
I love to write early in the morning when my mind is quiet and my thoughts, words and intentions surface. It is spring here in Central Oregon which means it will be 70 degrees one day and then...
Practice the Pause
Patience is not my strength. It never has been. I recall stories of me talking as a little girl where I would literally skip words so I could get to the point of my statement. And I know there...
Happy Birthday to Me
Today is my birthday. As of 7:35 this morning, I turned 53 and lest I forget, my mother calls me every year at this very time to relay the details of my birth. “Do you know where I was 53 years...
A Love Letter
It’s the last day of 2023 and here I sit, all snuggled up in my favorite chair, wrapped in my cozy blanket with two (yes, now 2!) pups at my feet. Historically at this time, I would be reviewing...
She’s So Full of Herself
A few weeks back I led a beautiful retreat of even more beautiful women. The theme of the weekend was about opening ourselves up to Receiving, a very foreign concept to many of us. The goal was to...