This morning I smelled the smell of rain on fresh green leaves and I was transported…   Transported to walks in the Wisconsin woods with my Grandma Sterling, transported to swinging on the tree swing outside her humble log cabin, and transported to the day my brother fell through those fresh green leaves, out of the tree house and broke his leg. (more...)...

Today, my parents’ whole world changed.  Today we installed high speed internet and a wireless router at my parents' home to compliment the iMac I gave them for their anniversary. (some sort of celebratory music is supposed to play at this point) (more...)...

I took a quantum leap today - literally and figuratively.  I jumped out of a plane from 10,000 feet! This is something I said I would never do... until this year.  This year, I set as an intention to do those things I have been afraid to do in the past, because I know in doing them, it will empower me to face any fear that may stand in my way.  This week I have been reading a book called "you squared", which talks about the 'peculiar' strategy for making a quantum leap in your life - an...

This morning, I took a walk down a country road.... that’s sort of all they have up here in Castle Rock, WA.  For 30 minutes I didn’t see another soul, except for the neighbor's black lab who joined me for my walk.  The surrounding mountains were thick with pines and clouds – a kind of beauty I don’t see much in Southern California.  And the smell... the smell reminded me of summers on my Grandma Sterling’s farm back in Wisconsin – fresh, clean, misty, and green.  For the most...

This week I embarked on a road trip.  My destination on day one was beautiful Yosemite Valley. What a spectacular work of Mother Nature.  As I came in the South entrance and traveled the winding road toward the Valley, I noticed and appreciated how beautiful the trees and the views were, but I also knew that there was something even more magnificent ahead.  Then as I traveled through the tunnel before it opened to the Valley, I remembered the first time I drove through that tunnel, with no...

I am in the middle of teaching a six-week class called Detox Your Life. Discover More Joy. This week's focus is on detoxing our schedules.  This is one of those things that can really get away from us.... before we know it, our day is doing us instead of us doing our day.  Our days can become a slippery slope of meetings, emails, phone calls, texting, TV, and internet surfing that leads to a week, a month, a year that happened by default, rather than by design. (more...)...

“Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world. There is nothing enlightened about shrinking so that other people won't feel insecure around you. We are all meant to shine, as children do. We were ...

What do you do when you get exactly what you asked for, only to discover it wasn’t what you really wanted? This is the question I found myself asking last year, after I had spent six months, and $100K to create my dream - a showroom called Laguna Green, a place where people could see how gorgeous green could be. It was exactly what I had imagined - A high-end, exclusively...

I need mediation because... I need to breathe with my Self. I need to connect with my Self. I need to BE with my Self. (more...)...

Be still, and know that I am God. God is abundant. God is infinite. God is peace. God is on my side. (more...)...