Where Are You Right Now?
Where are you, right now, in your state of being? Are you the fern, providing shade and C02 as you grow? Are you a rock-solid foundation, reliable in your unmovingness? Are you the stillness, observing with joyful eyes, and in which others find a moment’s resting spot? Are you on the cusp, alert and poised […]
America’s War Machine: Local Journalist Releases Essential Look at Military Industrial Complex
After decades covering defense and foreign policy stories in Washington, journalist James McCartney devoted his retirement to writing a book about what he had learned about the military-industrial complex. No small surprise, the MIC is alive and well — nearly 55 years after McCartney, as a reporter just starting out, heard President Eisenhower’s historic 1961 […]
Client EYP ranked No. 1 in sustainability
Well, this is great news! Architect magazine recently unveiled its rankings of the top architecture firms in the country and it named EYP Architecture & Engineering, one of my longtime clients, as the top firm in the country for sustainability. This is the second year in a row that EYP has earned the top spot […]
Client Piero Rivolta wins statewide poetry award
My client Piero Rivolta recently received a silver medal from the Florida Authors & Publishers Association for his book of poetry, Just One Scent: The Rest Is God. The book was originally published in Italian in 1999 by the Italian publishing house Crocetti Editore, eventually selling more than 7,000 copies worldwide. An updated edition of poems in both Italian […]
Don’t let fear do you in
Nobody likes to go down for the count. None of us want to be so beaten we can’t get back up. But one of the uncomfortable truths about life is that if you’re not seriously messing up at least every now and again, you’re probably not living your life as fully as you could. If […]
If it feels good
“… if something feels really good for you, you might want to do it. And if it feels really horrible, you might want to consider not doing it.” — Martha Beck. That’s a nugget of advice contained in this 2013 article from The New York Times about Martha Beck, other life coaches, and about the […]
Vulcan Tendencies or what I learned from Mr. Spock
“I’ve never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.” – Mr. Spock, Star Trek I get asked all the time by friends, strangers, readers of this column, and the occasional ex-boyfriend, — why I’m “still” single. Sometimes I answer metaphorically: I say I’m from another planet (which most people seem […]
Shake it off: Get your New Year groove back
Shake it off! A six-week telecourse to help you get your New Year groove back. Mid-January can bring a major slump and dump to any New Year goals, resolutions and gonna-do-it-this-year-no-matter-what promises you made to yourself by the light of the glittering New Year’s Eve disco ball drop. A few weeks later, and there aren’t […]
The Christmas Curmudgeon
People close to me know I’m a Christmas curmudgeon. They know I’m not exactly imbued with appreciation for what generally passes for Christmas “spirit” — giving gifts with little or no meaning; the pervasive air of “obligation” that people impart to the days leading up to Christmas; the lamenting of “I’ve got so much to […]
Certified Martha Beck Life Coach
Whoo-hoo! It’s official! Received my certificate from Martha Beck and I couldn’t be more proud. I’ve added it to the wall directly across from my desk — it’s directly in my line of sight while I work all day and will be a sweet, inspiring reminder every day of what my intention is: to coach […]