For almost three years I’ve been podcasting… sharing the stories of those who embrace the “pivot”…who choose what makes them happy…feeds the person they are and their creativity…and, hopefully and likely…makes the world a better place. Podcasting is the most fun I’ve ever had “working.” It was born of my willingness to pivot. How How …
As a woman in this day and age I know how difficult it can be to find the confidence and strength to live tin the way we’ve always wished to live… in the face of well-meaning (or not so well-meaning) resistance…or advice contrary to, the choices we know in the depth of our being are …
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One day…in a text…it appeared…the latest rendition of my dream come true! I’d been considering options for several years: dreaming about a home…one with no steps (compared to our present home with 74 steps…from the bottom of our driveway to our kitchen…34 steps if we drove to the top of our driveway). When I was …
For more than two years now, I’ve been hosting a video podcast called Creating From the Heart: The Artistry of Living. The focus of this endeavor is to encourage people to tell their stories about how they have found ways to do work they love…work that makes them eager when they get up every morning. …
“My life suuuucks! I don’t have time to do anything!…I don’t even know what I want to do…I feel like a gerbil on a treadmill…in a rut…I can’t stop…I keep doing this!” “Help!” I ask the powers that be. Have you ever been here? At 42…I definitely Was STUCK. I’d been a lawyer in downtown …
When I was 65 a friend of mine gave me the book Younger Next Year by Chris Crowley and Henry Lodge. It rocked my life! Written by a doctor and his 70-year-old patient, they each gave their commentary on becoming and staying active in later years. The humor…of both of them sold me. Every once …
February is the month of Valentine’s Day…a day dedicated to the poetry of love. But…did you know…February is National Haiku Writing Month! Well then…let’s celebrate it! Let’s write a Haiku…maybe even every day of February…what fun would that be? I’ve been doing this…writing Haiku on and off (not every day…well nobody’s perfect 🙂 ) over …
When I was young in the summers, I changed my clothes many times each day…from running around and playing in the forest clothes…to going swimming clothes…to waiting on tables clothes…to swimming clothes again…to waiting on tables clothes again…to playing kick-the-can clothes…to prayer service clothes…to beach picnic clothes or playing kick-the-can clothes again…getting into bed clothes…to …
My phone rang. It was 2:30 in the morning. My brother was calling to tell me our mother had died suddenly. By that Tuesday evening, my brother from Flint, my brother from Grand Rapids, my sister from Houston, and I had gathered in Grand Rapids. That evening we ate together and shared memories about the …
This morning I found myself walking through the forest in Beverly Shores. I’m always so inspired by the trees as the sun passes through the trunks, branches and leaves. Makes me feel as if I can extend my own roots into the ground below…somehow brings me back to myself…calms me down and gives me a …
