Compassionate holidays

As we approach the holiday season, I feel so strongly about being mindful of others’ financial — and hence, emotional — situations around gift giving and socializing that can get pricey. Sometimes people are too embarrassed to  speak up and say they...

Proud to serve

It is with great pride that I announce I’ve been elected to the Board of Directors of The Coach Initiative beginning Jan.1, 2011. I will be serving with some of the creme de la creme of the coaching community, most of whom I’ve met at the annual...

Manifest this

I was reading Mike Dooley’s new book, Manifesting Change, so was already in the ‘manifesting’ mindset when I went shopping with two friends. Then we got into a discussion about the meaning of candles and, well, the next thing you know a column was...

Hello, Universe

Yet another reason to wake up in the morning — Mike Dooley’s “Notes from the Universe” (TUT.com) and this one particularly today: Well, actually, Nancy, you were different. You didn’t want a perfect life, a typical life, or even a normal...

Write stuff

Once again Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac starts my day with a fascinating item. So many parts of this capture me, but mostly what Dostoyevsky went on to write: It was on this day in 1849 that 28-year-old Fyodor Dostoyevsky was sentenced to death for...