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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Why Should the Kids Have All the Fun?

  • On August 29, 2019
Just because we’ve been out of school for years doesn’t mean we can’t revel in the spirit of anticipation and anxious hope that fills the weeks when the school bell rings again.    What was your favorite ritual to start the new school year?   A new backpack?   New shoes?   A new outfit?  Fresh new notebooks?    Just because we are #adulting doesn’t mean we can’t use some
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A Reckoning at the Slimy Rock

  • On August 22, 2019
I don’t think I can do it. It’s too high. The rock is too slippery. “Here, give me your arm, I’ll pull you up.” No, I’m too heavy. You’ll pull your shoulder out.  (…trying again for a foot hold on the slimy rock) I don’t think I can do this. (Sobbing) “Just give me your
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Who’s on Your Fire Team?

  • On August 15, 2019
Last week I had the immense pleasure of serving as a team leader for a diverse group of Army and Marine veterans at Semper Fi Odyssey Leadership camp. The program re-energizes their warrior spirit and helps them create a plan to move their life forward through rebuilding family relationships, going back to school, pursuing a
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What Makes You Feel Alive?

  • On August 2, 2019
While on vacation in Maine last week, my husband and I took a hike on the coast trail in Acadia National Park from Otter Point to Sand Beach and back. The trail winds through the trees and over rocks, fairly easy but with its share of ups and downs, roots and rocks that beg for
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How Do You “Sharpen Your Saw?”

  • On July 11, 2019
While I’m all for hunkering down with a good novel to lose myself in someone else’s story for a while, I also seek out books that “sharpen my saw” (as 7 Habits author Stephen Covey would say), to read something that makes me question what I thought I knew or fills in some blanks on what I don’t know.   I just read a book that definitely cut a few more sharp notches in
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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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