I’m asking YOU. Can you do it? Can you give yourself permission to: relax? step away from a messy house? take time for you to rejuvenate? be angry with someone you love? grieve? take a nap? say no to a worthy request? ask for help? make your needs known? In my travels across the country [...]
Compelled!
It’s New Year’s Day- well, night. I was in the kitchen just moments ago unloading the dishwasher and loading it back up. Yes, it is almost 11:00pm, but I felt like straightening the kitchen. So I did. I was moving rather swiftly, especially for 11:00 at night, and my brain and soul were on the [...]
9.11.01 One Woman’s Journey
I wrestled for days about what to post on the blog as our country approaches the 10 year anniversary of the attacks of 9.11.01. Then, my friend Jennifer McClanahan, of www.Foodonourtable.com, shared her story of being in New York on this day and the commitment she made to, “…build a full life of my own.” [...]
I Felt the Earth Move Under My Feet
Like so many others, I felt the Earth move on Tuesday. I was in the midst of working with teachers from Imagine Discovery in Baltimore County Maryland when the floor started quaking. Everyone in the room looked across the computer tables at each other with expressions that conveyed, “Stop shaking the table.” But as soon [...]
