You started a business and it’s far less fulfilling than you thought it would be.  You’re 50 and want to go back to school. You retired, but you’re bored and [...]

I’m reflexively back to one of my favorite topics—how to make and keep friends as an adult. I am seeing this come up as a need, longing, and skillset for [...]

My friend and fellow coach Jenn wrote this beautiful post about Fall, about endings, how they wake us up, quoting the poet James A. Pearson: “What’s ending shakes me back [...]

It’s incredibly easy to complain about the decisions other people make, especially people with positional power over us.  True, some of those decisions are short-sighted, morally wrong, or even disastrous, and [...]

My last newsletter in July was titled, “Let There be Space.” I had it! I experienced, as I do every August, the immense relief, pleasure, and privilege of taking unpressured time [...]

This is my last newsletter for a month, as I’m about to go offline for my usual August break. By now, all my wonderful clients anticipate it with me. Around June, they start inquiring [...]

I just got back from seeing the Mary Oliver documentary (at the Pickford, of course! Bellingham’s gem indie theater) and wrote this little poem:  Mary Oliver Documentary Review  If she were alive, she’d never have consented [...]

I’ve just returned from a trip to France with my husband Yancey and our friends Elie, Lisa, and their son Theo. It was such a delicious, memorable time, especially being around [...]

A few years ago I went on a long-awaited pilgrimage to Provincetown, Massachusetts. My aunt has been visiting, working, or seasonally living here for 50 years, and for the last decade [...]

It’s expensive and worth it to get people in the same room together. Whenever I facilitate anything for a team, I’m always aware of the following: They are not doing their regular work when they [...]