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, learnings and musings shortly after and yet for some reason, haven’t...
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 there is snow on the ground the next. This morning we are somewhere in...
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 have been various iterations of that as I have grown into adulthood, as...
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 ago today?”. I get to hear about how she drank castor oil and stood on...
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 this past year, setting goals and a vision for this new one, checking...
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 offer an opportunity for my guests to suspend any tendency to give...
