• Uncategorized

    Receiving

    Can you receive?  Until the last year, I wasn’t very good at it…at all!  If someone asked me what I needed, I would say, “nothing”.  If I was paid a compliment, I would deflect it.  Slowly, that is all turning…

  • Uncategorized

    What Mask are You Wearing?

    Yesterday I read a quote by RuPaul that got me thinking.  He said, “We’re born naked, and the rest is drag.”  In a drag show, men dress up as women and perform.  They don’t just dress up, they go ALL…

  • Uncategorized

    Why It’s Not About Can’t

    Over two years ago I started a free Blogspot, “It’s Not About Can’t”.  I hadn’t defined it much.  I knew my intention, I just didn’t know how to talk to people about it.  Clearly, it went nowhere. So I haven’t…

  • Uncategorized

    It’s Not About the Directions

    I was thinking about my life as if it was spread out across some kind of map, or blue print.  The dots connected.  The path highlighted.  Like it was framed as a step-by-step, sequential set of actions and activities.  Hell…

  • Uncategorized

    A New Set of Lenses

      I learned something about myself.  I’m not who I kept imagining myself to be.  I should have realized it, but I didn’t. I kept holding up some really blurry picture of what this life of mine should look like.…

  • Uncategorized

    Turning off the seasonal hype 

    I absolutely love the holidays!  I love decorating. I love cooking. I love the parties and the excuse to get together and celebrate with family and friends.  So, not the point of this, but I wonder why we need the…

  • Uncategorized

    I will regret – nothing!

    Tossing and turning, in and out of what can be loosely considered as a light sleep, I glance at my phone, my email…I put in down, roll over…pull the covers off, put them back on…pick up my iPad. And the…

  • Uncategorized

    Why do we fear the unknown?

    Last night, my I sat on the couch and my son looked at me and said, “you have an animal in your hair.” Excuse me, WHAT? He didn’t want to touch it because he “wasn’t sure what it was.” I’m…