I must admit that sometimes I feel despair. I read the newspaper in the morning and am overcome by sadness and anger at our leaders’ lack...

In the doctor’s office waiting room this week, the patients staged a mutiny. Okay, that is a bit of an exaggeration. After one person...

In my dream last night, I was sitting in the audience at a table in a high school gym and on stage the actors were performing my play....

I have been experimenting with listening with my eyes open and with my eyes closed. This started in a Pilates session when by chance I...

I am reading Brené Brown’s new book, Dare to Lead, and that has me thinking more about what it means to lead. In partner dancing, the...

We recently returned from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico where my husband and I shared a house and memorable experiences with four...

“I’m giving birth to my creativity. For so long, I compared myself with my peer group. Since participating in the workshop, I am not...

My friend’s daughter worked for many years as a chef at a residential hospice center in San Francisco. One of the cool things they did...

As a Life and Leadership Coach, with experience in moving forward in my own life and helping lots of other people to do so, I would love to

What’s love got to do with it? It turns out more than I originally thought. On January 1, 2015 when I took a box of letters down from...

When I was a child growing up in Santa Barbara, we picked dandelions from the backyard after they had matured into wispy white parachute...

We sat around a small table in the dance studio located deep into the Cite des Arts building. At the previous rehearsal Christy, the...

Everywhere we turn, the volume has increased. This seems to be the case whether it be the noise level at restaurants or concerts, the...

Recently I had two experiences in meetings that prompt me to write this post. In the first meeting, I arrived a few minutes early to a...

Yesterday, at around 6:30 pm, my husband and I walked down Myrtle Place in our neighborhood. I was wearing shorts and a tee shirt and...

I’m remembering walking the mile to my elementary school either by myself or with friends. No fences surrounded the open school. Yes,...

On a recent trip to Glasgow, Scotland (a week filled with enchanting music, theater, art, architecture, lots of walking, delicious food,...