Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake. – Henry David Thoreau Things in life can get scratchy and uncomfortable.  My skin may feel too tight and my brain might feel brittle...

  What is doubt? Specifically, what is self-doubt? The definition of doubt according to Merriam Webster dictionary includes the words fear, distrust, and suspect.  Self-doubt then it seems is especially nasty.  When one is...

What is around the corner?  Adventures feel at hand. Tomorrow I take my husband and two oldest sons to sail home our newly purchased Catalina from North Carolina to Virginia.  The maiden voyage will...

Habits and patterns sometimes need changing. Becoming something – anything, means that changes are happening.  When the changes are in one’s habits it can get pretty uncomfortable. Sliding back into old ways just feels...

There is a lot of information out there now about what makes people live longer and happier lives. Most of these studies I have read about suggest that the quality of one’s relationships is...

Something I often hear from the young people I work with and people who find themselves running in  mental health circles is the existence of a judgment free zone. Being a woman in her...

What makes you laugh?  What brand of humor do you call your own?  Are you a punner, sarcastic, a lover of pratfall and slapstick?  Do you appreciate dark humor? Does bawdy, dirty humor crack...

Excruciatingly painful and slow is this process of growth and change at times and I stumble and fall and land flat on my face only inches from where I started.  That is how it...

Would you recognize yourself if someone told you their truth of you? If they were to tell you their honest and unvarnished appraisal of all that they see in you, could you bear to...

Lately I have had a thirst for feedback.  I have started a new job, published a book, written several posts here, and have made some serious changes in my lifestyle.  Oddly enough I have...