It's a tricky thing to find yourself feeling blue in the summer. The peaches are ripe, days at the lake are long, and hammocks wait ready in the shade; how could anyone be so selfish to be sad when it's all this good?
And yet ... it happens.
No need to examine the 1000 reasons you might be feelin...
Last fall I signed up for an AI training, as it seemed well-past time to understand the technology people say will replace me and every other worker on earth — except plumbers.
I spent six weeks learning how to write good prompts and training ChatGPT to act as my thought partner. It works incred...
We left the ranch in New Mexico for good last week. I cried throughout the 35-mile drive to town.
That surprised me.
That ranch is impossible. It's impossibly beautiful and harsh at the same time. It's dry and mean and full of rattlesnakes and yet, the skies are darker there and the sunsets wild...
I learned something new about God today that shouldn't feel like an aha, but it does.
I realized I worry too much about discerning God's "perfect will for my life," and too little just enjoying God's overwhelming love for me.
There's a big difference.
One feels like a blindfolded Easter egg hu...
I really don't care about basketball.
In fact, I wasn't even sure who the Knicks were playing when I noticed the frenzy happening at MSG. Then, over the weekend, I watched approximately one million reels of the game-winning shot and New Yorkers going batshit crazy.
What a joy to watch humans of ...
I finished the third round of edits on my manuscript today, and honestly, after reading the epilogue out loud to Sam, I nearly cried.
It's been over a year, (a lifetime actually) and Death to Sparkleprincess: a beginners guide to midlife, faith and meaningful work, is finally on her way to her e...
I won't bore you with the details, but something we've spent six months waiting for is dissolving into dust and falling through our fingers.
Admittedly, it was a high-commitment gamble from the beginning, but we did it, with a willingness to wait to see what would happen.
Nothing has happened, ...
When I started coaching, I heard somebody say, we set goals to feel an emotion.
That was ten years ago, and I'm certain it's true.
Think of any goal you've set recently. Straighten up your finances. Repair a relationship. Release 20 lbs. How would achieving it feel? That feeling, my friend, is ...
If you're a woman in midlife, and you find yourself saying:
"I just need to get motivated."
"I've got to get back on track."
"Get my body, my business back"
It's normal, but while you're looking backward at what was — wondering why it broke and how to fix it — your feet, mind and energy are point...
I read an article in the Atlantic a few months ago about loneliness in America. It read that 70% of people enjoy birthday parties, but only 28% plan to host one this year.
That's more than a math problem.
Humans are highly social mammals, but American culture has cornered itself into a level of ...
At the last Firegirl Retreat we held in Chamonix, France, we had 14 women, two houses and four staff, for six glorious days in the Alps. That was 2023.
Walking down memory lane today, I discovered a video from that week that I'd never seen. It's our Hospitality Queens Deann and Jeni on the deck o...
I spend so much time thinking about midlife, that sometimes I forget one of its very best features.
It ends.
What lies on the other side of midlife is sometimes described by people in their 50's and 60's with glee. It's a freedom from fakery, people-pleasing and scrutiny. It's generous and comm...
