Tag Archive for: life balance

What Would She Think?

Today is the anniversary of my mom’s passing nine years ago. She came down with the flu on March 29th, 2000 and quickly without warning or anyone knowing, went into congestive heart failure twenty-four hours later and was gone. She was 59. She…

Time

My family and I just returned from a fabulous trip to the Big Bend National Park area. This remote 800,000 acre national park is one of the most diverse and unusual—mountains/desert/river all in one area—and one of the least visited.…

Unexpected Gifts

In 2002, the year my son was born, I felt a soft but persistent tapping on my shoulder to start a free, community support group to help mothers (most of all me) focus on self-care. My plate was full with a six-month old and a relatively new…

Just for Fun?!

I grew up in an overachiever family. And, as the oldest of seven kids, it was not easy to refuse the Kool-Aid. As my husband, son and I were out bike riding around the beautiful lake in the center of our city Saturday morning, we stumbled…
mindfulness

What Grounds You?

I just returned from a wonderful Intuitive Arts weekend retreat led by my fabulous colleague Diana Amorde. I came home feeling so much passion/clarity and focus around my work and life. I couldn’t wait to dive back in and start implementing…

How does balance feel to you?

Although I enjoyed a long walk with a good friend around Town Lake Saturday morning and a relaxing dinner at home with my family Saturday evening (we made some wonderful fish tacos on fresh corn tortillas), I found myself feeling crabby and…

Simplicity

One of our favorite family activities is to visit the Sunset Valley Farmer’s Market each Saturday morning, choose some yummy things to eat for the day/week and come home and enjoy a wonderful leisurely lunch together. This past Saturday,…

Spirituality

I had a very unusual upbringing (read more). My parents were what most people would call spiritual “seekers.” Questions about how we connect to our divinity or the sacred --what most people refer to as spirituality--were constantly on…

Happy

I was having dinner with some friends late last year when an interesting conversation came up. Most of us were experiencing various stages of disequilibrium in our lives—either in our relationships, with our businesses or careers or in our…

Miracles

Have you ever faced a conundrum that you knew could not be solved by “thinking it through?” I have shared in several recent blog posts my intention to create more simplicity in my life in 2009 and how challenging it has been over the last…

Alive

Although it’s been challenging juggling everything this month, I am really enjoying my January writing sabbatical. And, it’s headed in a completely different direction than I had thought—but I’ll save that for another time. Creating…

Intuition

This past weekend, my son, husband and I climbed the beautiful, majestic granite Enchanted Rock in the Texas Hill Country. After climbing to the top, we chose to descend down the isolated west side of the rock—which is not on the map and…
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