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What is the significance of the New Line Road?

Have you ever paused and recognized that a lot of the details that you thought you were seeing you had actually missed?  This week we went on a quick road trip.  Our journey took us to a small town nearby, one that I have visited many times with my Father as a younger version of […]
9 years ago

Learning to Swim – It is not what you think!

If you have read my blogs you know that I love to find the lessons in my everyday life.  This lesson arrived early on Sunday morning in an unexpected way. That unexpected occurrence creates a stickiness that makes lesson retentions easy. It is never too late! We live on a lake and have done so for […]
9 years ago

What is your opening line?

So you are at a social event, how do you connect with others?    Does conversation come easy?  How do you decide who you want to speak to?  Have you ever thought about this? Let’s explore a little! There is literal vibrational truth to such expressions as being “on the same wave length” with someone. There […]
9 years ago

Caught up in the sound of silence: How do you handle it?

How much time do you spend in the quiet of your own thoughts or the quiet of nature?  It is hard to ignore the buzz that seems to exist throughout our lives.  There is more noise than we recognize and it is much harder to exist without it than one thinks! I always thought I […]
9 years ago

Shaken but not stirred.

Confidence is defined as full trust; belief in the powers, trustworthiness, or reliability of a person or thing.  I want to speak about confidence in self in this space.  It is one of those traits that has a defining impact on our success.  I have found it easier to have confidence in others than in […]
9 years ago

An Aerial View!

Recently on a trip to Toronto I had a bit of a revelation.  My seat was 5A – a window view.  During take off, I sat back and closed my eyes the way I usually do until my ears begin to normalize.  When I opened my eyes, the sun was shining bright in the window and […]
9 years ago

Falling off the wagon!

Have you ever had one of those days that just don’t seem to end?  That happened to me recently.   It was a series of three difficult conversations that occurred in a few short hours.  It just seemed that each began to build on one another.  Short of going home and covering my head, I was going to need to walk […]
9 years ago

It takes a while to figure things out!

With Mother’s Day just around the corner it seems a fitting time for reflection.   Now before I begin, for those of you who are not moms to two-legged beings, you will see that you get to play a role too!  When I was a kid growing up, I underestimated (by a long shot) how hard it was to be a […]
9 years ago

Time for you!

How often have you been told that you have to look after yourself first then you will have something to give to others?  One of things I’ve noticed is that “self care” for some is at the bottom of the to-do list.  We forget how much value “care” has. That’s a bit of what happened […]
9 years ago

Have you ever blocked a sweater? How do we create a memory?

Today I was doing some early morning chores, I had this flash back to a memory.  I had washed this sweater and it needed to be blocked (smooth it out to its original shape) on a towel to dry.  I am not sure if that is something kids learn now but it was something I […]
9 years ago