Desert Inspiration

Happy New Year! I’m fresh back from a retreat in the desert with three colleagues (and dear girlfriends), and re-energized for 2016! There’s something magical about the desert that revives an energy inside me. I’ve only now discovered this magic in mid life, as I was...

My Secret To Surviving Setbacks

Well, this week’s “HOW of Parenting” topic comes at the perfect time! I’m on day five of having a sick kid with a fever and itchy, ugly hives coming and going every few hours. I know you can relate. Maybe not to my son’s symptoms, but to mine: worry that he has some...

Finding Friends and a Community That Really Have Your Back

The last couple of years have been hard ones. I’ve been let go of by people who I thought were close friends, and have had to re-imagine my idea of community, letting go of communities that no longer matched my values or supported my family, and creating community in...