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...
What the F-Bomb Taught Me About Presence Power
"How you experience life isn't about what happens to you, but about how you react to it." ~ Eckhart Tolle When was the last time a perfect stranger swore at you? I'm talking heavy duty "I...
How to Listen When Your Land is Crying — A Ghost Story
The events I'm about to recount happened several months ago. Though I had expected to write about them much sooner, I realize now that Halloween week is the perfect time to share my ghost...
Rockin’ the 2013 Army 10-Miler
"I can't believe we're actually doing this!" Donna hugged me excitedly and continued, "We're actually here!" We stood with around 35,000 of our closest friends in the Pentagon parking lot...
Guest Post: Booby-Trapped This October?
Editor's Note: Today's post is reprinted from Yvonne Watterson's website Consider the Lilies ~ & Lessons From the Field. What has surprised me most since my own breast cancer diagnosis...
How to Organize Your Day in A Mindful Way
"Seldom do we stop doing what we're doing and think about (and rework) how we're doing it." Scott Belsky, Founder of Behance and author of Making Ideas Happen Over the past couple of...
The Reluctant Runner’s Guide to Distance Running
Yesterday I did something I've never done before. Not only that, I had never expected to even attempt it. I ran 8 miles. Well, sort of. It's all Donna's fault. Donna's my friend who asked...