Category: Self-Reflection
Can’t Do ‘Same Same’
June 1, 2021
For the first time in over 15 months, I went to a hotel for a weekend away. I went to brunch with new vaccinated acquaintances […]
Embracing Growth at Our Edges
May 3, 2021
“Inward, Upward, Outward, Onward”
That’s my catch phrase to describe the essence of my new book, Stretching Your Learning Edges: Growing (Up) at Work. The book […]
Take a Field Trip
March 1, 2021
When I wrote Swimming in the Deep End I started by naming a few things I wasn’t ready to dive into the ‘deep end’ to […]
On My Edge
January 4, 2021
While writing my next book I have been circling and circling like a dog who readies her bed. Do you know why dogs circle? Check […]
Inner Spaciousness: The Ultimate Frontier
October 1, 2020
When I initially wrote this newsletter, I wrote it inside my apartment mid-September. I was inside a lot of the time. Fires were happening outside […]
100 Days and More To Come
July 1, 2020
Sheltering in place in California. It’s been over 100 days in which I have slept nightly in my OWN bed. Not a common act for […]
We Contain Multitudes
May 1, 2020
Hello from my apartment in Palo Alto, CA, USA. As of the posting of this newsletter, I have been here for 6 weeks. I imagine […]
Into the Woods
April 1, 2020
Since my mother’s death 10 years ago, she has come to me in the form of a bird. Sitting on my balcony railing or on […]
Verbs For My 53rd
March 2, 2020
I am excited. My package of new cool reading glasses from Peepers arrived. I bought some oversized ones that remind me of Iris Apfel! Reading […]
Being Our Best Adult Selves
January 6, 2020
Sometime in the last year I saw a Roz Chast cartoon in The New Yorker that made me not only smile but actually laugh out […]
