Expression

I expressed myself recently and it was kind of sloppy and emotionally charged and poorly timed. And yet pure. Very pure. *Deep sigh* *Deep breath* Our truth isn’t always neat and controlled and formed into just the right sentences. Sometimes this is what soulful...

Quotable

Loved my reading in Mark Nepo’s The Book of Awakening today. He opens with this quote: Yours is to live it, not to reveal it. –Helen Luke His commentary that follows really resonated, especially this: I’ve come to understand her last instruction as...

SchoolsWIN is win-win

I was so not in any way a global citizen as a kid or even young adult, so when I see that being cultivated in youth now, I find it so impressive and admirable. The SchoolsWin campaign by Skadaddle Media for Windstream is a great example of how motivated children...

Holiday afternoon

Sometimes I think the best times of the holiday season are those I don’t plan. Between appointments in New York today, I stopped at Lily O’Brien’s for a Belgian hot chocolate and then strolled to Macy’s for my annual visit to Holiday Lane. I...

Making a gift shift

What a pleasure to interview brothers Blair and Kirk Souder, founders of ShiftMyGift.com. If you feel like you have enough ‘stuff’ and want to divert your holiday (or birthday) gifts to causes that speak to you, this site streamlines the process....