One quick scan through iPhoto on my laptop and I’d bet you’d guess two things: I’m very close with my very fun (read: crazy) family, and I have a love affair with nature.

No, you don’t have to go to your room, and yes, you can still see your friends (it’s been a long time since this sentence was handed down to me, but I assume the age-old punishment still works in a somewhat similar way? Maybe with the exception that at the time of my coming-of-age, I […]

I was very excited to be invited as a guest blogger for The Nebo Company, a DC-based coaching and consulting practice that focuses on cultivating visionary leadership. They’re an organization and a team of people who I have learned so much from, and am honored to partner with. To read my post and learn more about […]

Two years ago, I started one of my most cherished holiday traditions: writing a letter to myself on New Year’s Day for the following New Year’s Day. Last year, I penned this note on Jan 1, 2014. Last night, on Jan 1, 2015, Don and I sat by the fire and sipped a glass of champagne […]

In that first hardly noticed moment in which you wake, coming back to this life from the other more secret, moveable and frighteningly honest world where everything began, there is a small opening into the day which closes the moment you begin your plans.

I am the plane, I am The extension, the opening, The freedom to come and go.

The other day, my husband, Don, and I transplanted an apple tree from its former home in a 5-gallon bucket into its new home in our yard. The tree had been living in the bucket for maybe five months or so. After painstakingly digging a 3-foot wide, 2-foot deep hole (I feel it’s an important […]

Think to those moments when you’ve felt fully alive. Moments when you were unaware of the time, buzzing with possibilities, aware of what you see and smell, what you taste; how you feel. Moments when each breath feels deep and your heart feels full of gratitude. That is the experience of being with life. That, […]

This is my first  blog post. I’m nervous about blogging! It feels very public, maybe because, inherently, it is. Every day, millions (I read today that an estimated 31 million people in the US are bloggers!) of people around the world post their thoughts, feelings, lives into the online universe. For consumption, analysis, digestion, reflection… […]