5 Minutes to a more Positive Year

  • On January 30, 2020
What is one small action I can take today to feel more joy in my life?   What is one tiny step I can take to move forward on my goals?   These are the two questions I ask myself every morning in 2020. The idea comes from a book I have started my year with, The Joy of Appreciative Living by Jacqueline Kelm.  2019 was a rough year for me, lots
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What Lifts You Up?

  • On September 12, 2019
One of my favorite places so far in Prague has been the Cathedral of St Vitus, St Wenceslas and St Adalbert at Prague Castle. It’s a half-cloudy day, but the sun at this moment is streaming through the elaborate stained-glass windows (with an interesting ‘beaux-arts’ style window designed by Alphonse Mucha), painting the stone floors
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Is Your Brain Feeling Foggy? Pack Your Bags!

  • On September 5, 2019
Are feeling in a rut? A bit too comfortable in your comfort zone? Finding it hard to get energized by work you used to love? Or struggling with too much on your plate? Time for a trip! I’m not talking about the same old beach house vacation (although that can be a great stress reliever
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Honoring the Best, Change the Rest

  • On June 27, 2019
I visited my old stomping grounds in Old Town Alexandria last week, seeking out the comfort of my hangouts and friendly faces. Like the 80’s TV show “Cheers”—the places where everybody knows your name. But something had changed! A peek in the window of one of my fave coffee shops, dark and empty. What had
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I Hear the Birds Sing Again!

  • On June 6, 2019
Last week I moved to a new home, a new state, a new part of the country. My husband is working in a different capacity and from home. It’s a BIG change in my, and our, lives. My coaching and consulting work is the only consistency. Over the course of my 27-year military career I
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Chopsticks and Change

  • On May 9, 2019
I found this wooden box of beautiful silver chopsticks and soup spoons. I have two sets of them; place setting for 24. They’ve been buried in the back of a cabinet for years. Now that we are moving, I am discovering all kinds of long-lost treasures like this. These were given to me as a
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Fix the Drip!

  • On August 23, 2018
I had become immune to the drip.  For a while, the sprayer function on my kitchen faucet hasn’t worked. Then an annoying tiny spurt of water from the corner of the downspout. And then…water dripping down the neck and pooling at the base. I started keeping a rag near the counter, so I could wipe
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