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Learning to Make Lemonade

When I think of summer, I often think of lemonade — a nice, thirst-quenching, icy-cold glass of pure yum. I will confess that I rarely make it from scratch — frozen concentrate works quite well for my children’s lemonade stands. But I do know that the “from scratch” recipe isn’t that hard; essentially, it’s lemon [...]

The Point of Power is Right Now

You know, this is something I’ve been aware of for a while now…and yet, it still catches me off guard from time-to-time. It’s as though I’ve spent so many years either analyzing the past or trying to manipulate the future, that the business of staying right here in the present moment can be more than [...]

Allowing the Emotions to Flow

The human condition is characterized by a spectrum of emotions. Everything from anger and sadness to joy and exhilaration can be experienced by one and all, regardless of age, gender or ethnicity. When it comes right down to it, your ability to feel all of these emotions is what distinguishes you from other living creatures. This [...]

When You Can’t See What’s Ahead

A couple of years ago, I was driving with my family on our first-ever March Break trip to Disneyworld. The excitement in the vehicle as we drove on that first night — a 4 hour stretch, just to say we were on our way — was palpable. My husband was the only one of us [...]

Learning to Bless

As is normal for anyone engaging in the process of living life (I mean REALLY living, not just going through the motions), I seem to be in a constant state of evolving and learning. Moment to moment, day to day, things are constantly shifting in my world, and what I know for sure is that’s [...]

Opening Yourself to Joy

Joy. Today, I’m feeling called to write about joy, and more than that, to experience it, to savour it. Of course, even as I feel called to joy, I find myself getting curious about what it means. I mean, I know what it feels like, I know what I feel as the quality of joy. [...]

Receiving the Gift of Time

We live in a fast-paced, busy world. This likely isn’t news to anybody. If you look around, it’s easy to see that people are constantly racing against the clock, trying to fit a myriad of tasks into a seemingly little amount of time, and simultaneously complaining about the busy-ness of it all. I’ve experienced the [...]

When You’re Feeling Disconnected…

…reach out and get connected. This is a learning that I gained several years ago. At the time it felt simultaneously simple and brilliant. I remember experience the learning as a “light-bulb” moment. “Of course”, I said to myself, “when I’m feeling disconnected the obvious remedy is for me to reach out and connect with [...]

A Mountain Out of a Molehill

Or a “hole in the ground” beneath the molehill. That’s actually what it feels like in this moment. Yesterday I blogged about taking a big risk and contacting (or at least leaving a message for) Arlene Dickinson. While I haven’t yet received a response from here one way or the other, I’ve been allowing my [...]

Big Gulp, Big Risk…Big Leap Forward

So, I did it. For a number of weeks now I’ve been working on completing a survey of women leaders. Actually, I’ve been working on it since early October, but then had to abort the mission for a little while when I got sick. Once things got back on track, however, I kept moving along [...]