My friend Gina Grandolfo died, a year ago today, of complications from breast cancer surgery. No one expected her to die from having had breast cancer or the surgery. She was 48. She left behind a 5-year-old son and a husband. And parents and a sister with nieces and nephews, and too many friends to…
I’ve started doing this year long course on Daily Om called A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back. I’m on Day 27 of the curriculum and mostly so far it has been about awareness and feelings, not about doing anything physically to clear clutter, stacks of papers, or cleaning out closets or anything.…
I had an amazingly creative night last week when I attended one of those wine and paint nights. Not that the painting we were scheduled to paint was amazing or creative but when I sat down that night to paint with my friends, I felt like I was channeling my artist friend Jess Nichols. Jess…
I had this brilliant idea in 2011 of blogging about Christmas and doing a little cadre of blogs for the 12 days of Christmas and to cover certain topics (some fun and some funny). It’s taken me a little while to cover all of the things that I mapped out way back then! I’ve tried…