I turned sixty this year, just about six months ago. I gave myself quite a celebration when I turned fifty but I just kind of slipped through the sixty keyhole without too much notice or fanfare. About three months after this main event, I was standing in line at Sweet Tomatoes to pay for my […]
Add a new and different ritual to Halloween by celebrating the power of women. Who is your favorite heroine rom any era? The Standard College Dictionary defines a heroine as one who performs brave deeds, showing great daring or boldness.
Women have more power than ever in this era. I am estactic that Hilary Clinton got as […]
What woman hasn’t rewarded herself, cured a bad mood, celebrated a triumph or replaced chocolate by buying a pair of new shoes? Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends on Sex and the City demonstrated on a regular basis, how focusing on their shoes made them feel better. Celebrations around shoes are everywhere: the movie In her […]
This video shows the extraordinary response of an African lion who reunites with the woman who rescued him, saved him and then when he got to big, found a home for him. It is an extraordinary display between these two who very evidently had a heart connection.
How would it be for you if you greeted people […]
Have you ever heard the story that the person who came up with the idea of daylight savings time was a salesman for outdoor grills and furniture. The rationale being that if people had more longer days in the year, they would buy more outdoor furniture and barbecue grills. Another urban myth as the research I […]
I am heading up to Frisco, Colorado this weekend to volunteer at the registration desk at the Tubbs Romp to Stomp Out Breast Cancer snowshoe event at the Frisco Nordic Center. My friend Kay Beaton is an official photographer of the event. This is yet another sterling example of how hundreds of thousands of women […]
This week at work my boss gave birth to her first child. The very next day one of our volunteers died. I was struck by how life and death go hand in hand.
My boss had given up hope of having children when at the age of 40 she and her husband rejoiced that she was […]
This past weekend was the 16th anniversary of the “GreenLadies” Retreat in Estes Park Colorado in Cabin 20 of the Valhalla Resort. The 8 women who gathered this weekend have been supporting each other for many years through transitions, heartaches, victories, family crisis, family joy. Rarely do one of us miss this cherished weekend where […]
Randy Pausch’s last lecture on the Oprah Show was sent to me by a good friend. Randy Pausch is dying and the life lessons he wants to impart to the world but especially to his three children are all about the relationships of your life: how to love, honor, respect, find joy, cherish and heal the relationships […]
