Here is the truth, friend… There is no such thing as life balance. You can balance a checkbook or a teeter-totter, but you can’t balance life. I know it seems like you should be able to. Western culture is very fact driven. We like to quantify and allocate and check things off. But life, Read More

I don’t like soup. And I don’t like to chop. To me, soup is perfectly good food on which someone has dumped a pitcher of water. Ick. Chopping vegetables is mind-numbingly boring. I am still missing some feeling in my left pointer finger due to a chopping incident. Chopping is not my thing. My, Read More

Some of the most transformational work I do is one-on-one, helping someone figure out what fundamental belief they have that is holding them back or causing them grief. What the heck is keeping them from living a huge, delicious, wonderful life? I throw out hunches. Sometimes my hunches are right. Sometimes they’re wrong but, Read More

This is a story I like to tell everyone who will listen to it, because it’s just so freaking amazing, and was as close to a miracle as I have ever gotten. That I know of. Here goes. How acupuncture miraculously cured my allergies. By Ellen Yale. The kids were about 8 and 10-years-old, Read More

I’ve always told Bayla I thought she had Susan’s hands.  I am glad I had the chance to take a photo. We were given a Christmas miracle.  It’s one more Christmas with Susan. Susan is my husband’s sweet, lovely sister.  She was diagnosed with cancer in September, after waking up paralyzed.  The paralysis was, Read More

  Nothing outside you can ever give you what you are looking for.  ~Byron Katie Byron Katie is an inspiring thought leader and founder of The Work. One of her core teachings is about three types of business. This is gold. This is freedom. So, listen like there is going to be a written, Read More

When I studied Psychology in college, freshman year we did the ubiquitous Skinner Box experiment. That’s the one where you put a cute little white rat in a cage/box with a bottle of sugar-water. The rat figures out that if he steps on a tiny little lever that a drop of yummy sugary water, Read More

I loved my old flip-style cell phone. One of the things I miss is that my old flip phone would announce who is calling instead of simply ringing. She was no Siri, but she would proudly announce who was about to touch my life. I made life a little more interesting by giving everyone, Read More

  I haven’t written about my daughter’s illness before, because we both thought it would change. We thought one of the five doctors I have taken her to would fix her. We thought it would pass and just be a chapter in her life she had overcome.She and I both thought that she would get, Read More