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• Ready or Not

  I’ve been doing a little humming and hawing lately about sharing my most recent ventures. I so want to share with you what is percolating within Read More »

• 30 Days of Miracles II: Awakening

    Last year I did a “30 Days of Miracles” blog series which was quite popular. I’ve decided to do it again, only this time with Read More »
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  The Miracle of Letting Go

  I can’t  plan this. Some academics spend eons planning, researching, writing and editing their material. Forgive me my typ-os (typos?), my dangling participles, my fragments. This Read More »

• 5. Rebirth: The Wolf In Me Rises

  Yesterday I was speaking to a friend about my identification with the Wolf,  as in “Women Who Run With the Wolves“ by Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Phd Read More »

• 4. Resting in the Universe

  Yesterday, as I lay on my chaise lounge outside under the grand maple tree, the only word that came to me was “Mmmmm….” I did not Read More »

• 3. The Death of the Ego

  When we talk about death we often talk about the physical body. But that has been the least of my experience. Yes, I have been through Read More »

• Miracles of Life & Death 2: Waiting

  Nobody can control life or death. But we can try. We can will certain things into being, just as we can will certain things out. But Read More »

• Miracles of Life & Death 1: Preparation

  Today I am writing because I want to prepare. I want to prepare for my grandmother, who has just announced that she is ready to go Read More »

• “Miracles of Life & Death” New Series

  I’ll admit: ”life sucks.” Sometimes. We can pretend that it doesn’t bother us, work around certain bothersome situations. But there are moments, times, days, even years for some, Read More »

• Day (#): A Miracle Never Ends

  My good friend, Dom, provided the title for this evening. And the inspiration.  His message: My  journey has just begun. His reason: Miracles never end. Nothing Read More »

• Preamble to Day 30…

    Where I am right now: Undoctored. Philosophy? Never.   I’m right here, I am Looking at you Looking at me No apology That’s who I Read More »

• Day 29: “Just a Little Trim, Darling!”

  I’ve heard that one before!  Do you remember sitting in the chair, your little five-year old legs dangling helplessly over the edge, barely able to see Read More »

• Day 28: Grace Gave Me Goosebumps

  My friend Stacey’s comment today about Day 27  giving her “goosebumps” created a moment of Grace for both of us. I felt them too!  Thank you, Read More »

• Day 27: What is a Miracle? II

  I am nearing the completion of my 30-day trek, and thought it would be wise to actually address the purpose of this blog, this process, this Read More »

• Day 26: Confidence

  Confidence. Where does that come from? How does one situation bring out the “worst” in us, and another the “best”?  How does something which seemed impossible Read More »

• Day 25: Fun!

  FUN! I was going to write about Why I am Here, Part II, but again, life gets in the way! And that, my dear, is the Read More »

• Day 24: Resistance Training

  Hello all. I thought I would write about Why I am Here, Part II, but maybe that will have to wait. I have some resistance training Read More »

• Day 23: Good Enough for Me!

  Yes, it’s Wednesday and I haven’t written in 2 days. After publishing my “Daily Commitment Contract” the other day I set out to avoid everything on Read More »

• Day 22: The Daily Commitment Contract

  OK, so here’s where “the rubber meets the road”. A few weeks ago, I wrote about my Commitment. It was a real declaration. But how much Read More »

• Day 21: The Miracle is You

  I mean that literally. The Miracle is You. I’m not being generic or metaphoric or universal in any way. For the first time, I really get Read More »

• Day 20: “Love Liberates”

  I listened to Maya Angelou speaking on “Oprah’s Master Class” tonight.  “Love liberates,” she said.  What is a good teacher/friend/mother/lover? The one who loves enough to Read More »

• Day 19: Gratitude, My Tiny Listless Friend

  This is what came to me while silencing the creeping need to fret away the time…  a moment of grace in a busy day. GRATITUDE I Read More »

• Day 18: Intimidated

  Today I feel intimidated. I am afraid to write this post!  I am embarrassed that someone will read it, which they probably will! So I told my Read More »

• Day 17: Why I am Here, Part I

  This is a bold statement, I realize. I was going to begin with a question: “Why am I here?” But perhaps I have learned something already. Read More »

• Day 16: How Far is the Sky?

  I don’t know... that’s what’s so exciting about it. I don’t know where the Eagle flies, or how high or how far. I just know, I Read More »

• Day 15: Haley Sings to the Mountaintops

  Tonight one of my guilty pleasures was watching Shania Twain recover her voice in her show, “Why Not? with Shania Twain” on OWN.  It reminded me Read More »

• Day 14: I Belong!

  This morning I went to a yoga class I hadn’t been to in a while. That’s me, slipping in and out of things – alarming! Seriously, Read More »

• Day 13: Commitment

  I write in order to learn. I am writing this because I need to be. Because I want to be. If I don’t write, I am Read More »

• Day 12: The Climb

  1 . “Jump off the high dive, woman.” She looks at him. No. Yes. No. “OK, have it your way.” He picks her up and throws Read More »

• Day 11: We All Get Scared

  I have to write this in honour of my daughter.  I didn’t mean to, I was going to write about “Now”, but I will save that Read More »