2024 in Review
Help in Staying Awake By now you know that December is a very reflective month for me. If you are rolling your eyes, I absolutely don’t blame you! But the [...]
More Singing
Laura and I led our monthly singing circle last night (one-year anniversary!), and I am still buzzing from it. At one point, someone taught a new song. We did call-and-response [...]
Out Of Our Heads And Into Our Right Minds
There is so much buzzing around inside me these days! After a hard season this winter, things have lightened, and I find myself in love with the world, with myself, [...]
The Art of Noticing
My husband Yancey and I have returned from Portugal, where we were with Dan and Robyn Hines, reflecting with 22 other people on the second half of life. It was [...]
Influence by Invitation
Getting ready for my bike commute this morning, I felt an indistinct longing. Wanting to feel connected to the world, wanting companionship. I felt receptive, open, needy. This is the [...]
Summer Bookshelf
Hello, friends! I’m reminded again this week of how June can really kick my butt. Even though I don’t have a graduating senior this year (two more years—please send all [...]
In Praise of Tinkering
When my daughter was in elementary school, she came home one day excited about her gymnastics unit in P.E. She had barely finished her story when I said, “Well honey, [...]
Campus Life
Last weekend, my daughter and I went to visit one of my goddaughters at college—see her dance performance, eat dinner with her in the dining hall, see her dorm room, [...]
The Good Stuff is in You
We are remodeling my home office, and step #1 a few months ago was to clean out the monstrous metal filing cabinet. Much of it was training and educational materials [...]
Three Cheers for Incompetence
Maybe you are familiar with the model that outlines four stages of learning: Unconscious incompetence: I don’t know what I don’t know Conscious incompetence: I’m trying to learn, and it’s [...]