Want a great movie for your next movie night?  Try Julie and Julia.  Here are two women, feeling a little lost, and finding their way ahead through food.  Brilliantly done, deliciously filmed, funny, a little sad, challenging, triumphant.  It’s about love, life, discovering, and mattering. Mattering.  That”s a big theme for me these days. A few...

Lately I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about who I really am. I’ve spent my whole life trying to be “seen” as if I was afraid of being nobody if I weren’t seen in a big way by somebody. Many of the truly poor decisions of my life have been made as a result of my need to be recognized, affirmed, and validated. My platform for most of...

I love Mondays. They feel like a fresh beginning, don’t you think? A chance at a new week, a new start, new challenges! Woohoo! I’m afraid I’m both a “yeah Monday” and an “early bird” – probably makes me an anathema to most people, LOL! Ok, well, what if we made this Monday the beginning of something new and...