Recently, someone helped a friend of mine. I was away and she was in a fix — not an emergency, just one of those situations where you could use an extra set of eyes and an alternate perspective.
The ...
I’m always surprised how, after a week in a manual rental car, stalling, grinding and only realising ten minutes down the motorway I’m still in third, that I come home to find my foot reaching for the...
Alone is how I spent this past week, holed up in an English countryside cottage. My son is off with his dad having a great time and I am by myself — having a great time.
Such an extreme change of pace...
Are you spontaneous?” I got asked this weekend. My “yes” came without hesitation.
“Tell me something spontaneous you’ve done lately.”
“I…um…lately?”
I could name a hundred spontaneous things I’d done ...
It has never been quite the same since we lost Joan Rivers but what I still enjoy most about the Oscars is scrolling through the red carpet dresses in the days that follow.
This week’s offering has l...
March is proving to be a full month for me. I’ve decided to undertake two big projects, each with the potential to monumentally impact my life as I know it.
They are projects I’ve been putting off fo...
I write this amid the dulcet tones of juddering jackhammers and breaking tile. One of those unexpected gifts of homeowning, suddenly discovering you need to re-plumb a bathroom because the old metal p...
This week my eight-year-old had an assignment for school. As part of his All About Me project he had to create a display of things relevant to him — what’s important and how he’d like to represent him...
I know Kung Fu. But imagine it less Keanu Reeves in The Matrix and more … Jack Black in Kung Fu Panda 3!
One can learn a lot from movies. I’ve watched enough to know. I was a film major in college an...
While facilitating a workshop last year on managing change, I ventured that change, despite how drastic it might feel at the time, always delivers positives if we choose to see them.
It was an idea m...
