I tend to get a little more pensive around the holidays. Maybe it’s the lights, the crispness in the air (yes, even here in Malibu – the high is only 61F today, people! I can’t feel my hands!), the coming together of family and friends to break bread and just be with each other more […]

If you’ll allow me to toot my own horn for a second (toot, toot – sorry, couldn’t resist. Oh, I’m sorry – did you forget that I’m a nerd?), if there is one thing you can always count on me for, it is that I am great at receiving feedback, no matter the source. In […]

  I agonized for weeks over whether I should write this post or not. I almost posted it last week, but then I couldn’t. I didn’t want to re-read it. I didn’t want to relive it. And I wasn’t sure I wanted to even talk about it. Not anymore. But then the deadline for my […]

*Note: This blog post was written in June, but I waited until now to share it with you. I hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed telling the tale. It started out like any other Thursday morning. I got up. I wrote in my gratitude journal (ok, fine, I don’t do that every […]

“Peace is not something you wish for, it is something you make, something you are, something you do, and something you give away. ” ― Robert Fulghum Last weekend I went to a self development workshop. We worked on a bunch of stuff (a very technical terms for “concepts”), and though this normally isn’t my […]