April 21, 2026

Stress Lives in the ‘Shoulds’

Stress often arrives wearing the mask of responsibility. It tells us we are not doing enough. Not moving fast enough. Not succeeding as much as we should. Not holding everything together the way others seem to. Stress frequently lives in the language of should. I should have done more. I […]
March 16, 2026

Steps of Change

Steps of Change Finding Steady Ground in a World That Keeps Shifting The Oxford Dictionary describes a paradigm shift as “a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions.” In other words, our world, our rules, and our expectations have changed on every possible level. Life can feel like that moment […]
October 11, 2022

Bandwidth and Scarcity

My 20-year-old Toyota Highlander has remarkable amenities that include an FM/AM radio, CD player AND a cassette player. One evening as I was rummaging through my purse my 4-year-old grandson spotted a cassette tape that I’d stuck in my purse to listen to on my hours long drive to his […]
September 19, 2022

Ancestor Trees

Last year my sister and I went to a celebration of our childhood neighborhood. When we were growing up the houses there were just considered old. This event was to celebrate our old stomping grounds as a designated historic street. A neighborhood built as part of a stately development at […]