Ah, To Be Great
This week I had reason to revisit a book I read in the early 2000s – Good to Great, Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t. It’s a book that has always stayed in my mind, but I…
Category Reaching Your Dreams
My Bougainvillea is Blooming!
I love the crisp vibrant flower of the bougainvillea. I love that it reminds me of Mexico, and of Southern California. Living in the Pacific Northwest, I thought my bougainvillea days were over until I saw some for sale at…
Some Things are Worth the Wait
This week my day lilies blossomed. I think I appreciate them so much more because day after day after day I would get up in the morning, go out back to see if they’d opened yet . . . but…
Strength with Style
In recent years I’ve taken up the practice of jotting down phrases and lines that come to me while I’m out and about. If I don’t, I’ll forget them. That doesn’t worry me much because it’s not like I actually…
Firewalk, Anyone?
So I was reading someone’s account of doing the ‘firewalk’ at an event with motivational speaker Tony Robbins. The ‘firewalk?” you ask? Yes, it’s the ritual of walking over hot coals . . . barefoot. To answer your next question…
Sitting at the Railroad Changing Station
I feel like I’m at a railroad changing station. I used to live close enough to the railroad yard to know what that sounds like. Late at night I hear the screeching brakes, high pitched and irritating. That followed by…
My Secret Superpower
What is my superpower? My area of expertise? Well, it’s not easy. Not everyone can do it, or at least not do it well. It’s a talent I’ve crafted and refined over a lifetime . . . and I’ve really…
Two Inches: Lost and Found
I went to the doctor this week to get established as a new patient here in my new town. Of course, they took my weight. Okay, nothing I didn’t already know. Then they measured my height. I’ve lost two inches!…
Jaw-Dropping Awe
You wanna know what makes my jaw drop in awe and my eyes grow moist? It’s the realization that the dream I seek, seeks me, too. I’m not alone in the dreaming. To know it’s not a one-way stretch, to…
About my Carlos Santana Boots
We went out to dinner last week and a friend commented that she likes my boots. I shared that these boots were designed by Carlos Santana. I bought them when I moved from Los Angeles to rural Indiana. I like…