It all started with an Osprey … It all started that day I saw an Osprey in a tree. I hadn’t seen one since I lived in Oregon, over 40 years ago. It was a lovely spring day in Southern California, near a small town that overlooked the ocean. I arrived early to attend a…

These three little words posted on my calendar often make me smile when my mind is swirling with thoughts and to do lists. Keep it simple somehow brings me back home. I pause, take a deep breath, and begin again. Keep it simple reminds be to ask myself how important is it? And perspective usually…

“In my life, I have found two things of priceless worth—learning and loving. Nothing else—not fame, not power, not achievement for its own sake—can possibly have the same lasting value. For when your life is over, if you can say ‘I have learned’ and ‘I have loved,’ you will also be able to say ‘I…

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished. ~ Lao Tsu For most of my adult life I’ve been told to be “patient with the process.” What does that mean? I thought, as I hurried through my day as a busy mother, wife, career woman, & Girl Scout leader for my daughter’s troop. I wanted…

Hello – It’s been quite a while since I wrote something here. Some of you may remember me as a parenting coach & workshop leader. In 2019, a few years after my kids were grown & gone, and my mom died, and my divorce was done, I decided to shift gears in a new direction:…