Please excuse my absence. I've been trying to channel a chickadee for the past several weeks. Did you know that chickadees have retinas lined with receptors that are twice as dense as...
How to Shoot a Chickadee
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15 Life Lessons Gleaned From a Forsythia Bud
First, I wanted to apologize to my email subscribers for my last post's (A Few of My Favorite Things) crazy formatting. The piece was fine on the website, but I didn't size the photos...
A Few of My Favorite Things
Hi folks! How do you like my new blog design? Since this year is focused on Whispers From My Garden, I asked the lovely and talented Tara DuBois of Unbound Website Creations to design a...
Why the GE Mom Commercial Hurts Women
Does anybody else out there (male or female) have an inferiority complex when they watch the GE commercial that's been running during the U.S. coverage of the Olympics? It's the one with...
Why I Skipped Town for a Solo Retreat (and Why You Should Too)
Spirit and I got out of Dodge last night. After thinking about it for years, I finally said, "This is the time." It wasn't an angry, "I'm leaving!" kind of decision. Or, "You...
On Aging Dogs, Acceptance, and Making Time for Gratitude
Today Spirit stumbled coming up the three steps from the back patio. His hindquarters just collapsed. I helped him up and he was wagging his tail as soon as he made it into the house,...
How to Tap into the Power of Community (Even if You’re an Introvert)
Are you a joiner type of person? Or do you prefer to work solo? Do you find safety in numbers, or do you feel alone in a crowd? I've always tended to be in the latter category. Although...
The Secret to Happier Holidays
I hope you've enjoyed the holidays as much as I have. This year has been especially rich in family time for us, with my mother's 80th birthday a few weeks ago bringing loved ones in from...
The Groundhog Day Guide to Presence Power
How often do you wish you had a second chance at something? The great thing about life, if you're paying attention, is that very often you do get to try again. In the classic comedy film...
Conquering the Darkness with Christmas Lights and Hanukkah Candles
On the anniversary of Newtown, and with our holiday lights twinkling once again in the moonlight, it felt right to repost the piece I wrote shortly after the school shootings in...
How to Suffer Less When You’re Sick
Despite my best intentions, I've fallen off my blogging schedule the past few weeks. This is my second round of blogging through the holidays, and I learned last year just how hard it is...
6 Playful Strategies to Beat Procrastination and Boost Your Productivity
With the holidays coming up and to-do lists getting longer and longer, I thought this week would be a good time to reprint a post I wrote back in August for the personal development...