Maya Angelou said “Everyone has a story. If you have a story to tell you need to tell it”. I have a story to tell. The reason I started this blog was to tell my story. Telling my story helps remind me of who I am. Telling my story helps me make sense of…
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Funky Town
Won’t you take me to Funkytown?* A couple of weeks ago I received a phone call from a long time friend. I hadn’t talked to her in awhile and was so happy to hear her voice. She said she was calling for selfish reasons. She needed my advice. Uh oh! She said, I’m really feeling…
Life is All About Plan B
Life is all about plan B. It is a concept I have been pondering for a few months now. I’ve always been a planner and it is very hard for me to not have a plan. Or make a list. My nature is to plan out my life in great detail. But what happens when…
Bucket List
I’ve been thinking about my bucket list lately. A lot. This all came about from attending Oprah’s “Life You Want” weekend. Oprah gently guided us through workshops and exercises designed to help us discover what “the rest of our life” (after the weekend) would look like. The excitement of figuring out my new life was…
Peace, Love and Oprah
Last week at this time I was waiting for the start of Oprah’s “Life You Want” weekend. The experience was incredible and life changing. Oprah spoke for two hours about using your unique and extraordinary spirit to get the life you want. Here are just some of the more important words of wisdom she had…
I’ll start my zen life tomorrow
I recently spent an amazing weekend participating in Oprah’s “Life You Want” tour. I took my stepmother to this Oprah weekend as a gift to celebrate her 80th birthday. I must admit that over the thirty-one years she has been married to my dad I haven’t really given her a lot of good birthday…
Back to the Future
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.” ― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore Groton, Massachusetts I recently returned HOME to Savannah from a two week vacation in New England. Massachusetts was the place I called home for nineteen years. My oldest son was 3 1/2 and my youngest son was 8…
No Free Lunch!
The old adage says “there’s no such thing as a free lunch”. This common saying presumes that you have to “do something” in order to “get something” in return. A few weeks ago I attended a fabulous lecture at the Savannah Morning News auditorium. The lecture was FREE and so was the lunch! All…
What are you doing?
On my last day of work one of my friends called to check on me. Her: “How are you? Are you OK? What are you doing?” Me: “I’m cooking spaghetti sauce and making blueberry muffins. Her: “Oh”. “Why?” Me: “Because that’s what I do when I don’t know what else to do”. Cooking brings me…
Change is Hard
A former boss and the best mentor I ever had often said “change is hard” when promoting a new idea at a staff meeting. Gasp! To her this “change” was filled with excitement but everyone else saw any change to the status quo as filled with dread. What does this mean? Will my job get…