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...
Sam and I have an unusual lifestyle. I'm self-employed and he's a cowboy — like a real one who moves cows, brands them, feeds them and helps them have babies, if they need it.
He's not even posing in this picture. Just peak Sam.
For the past five years, we've spent time out west, specifically ...
Our first-ever friend camp in Taos, New Mexico is in the books, and since people always ask, "how was it," I figured I'd share it here.
Yesterday, as my friend Jean and I were riding back to the Albuquerque airport, she played the TikTok I made back in February about Friend Camp. Listening to wh...
About a year ago, I heard Dr. Brene Brown say something super deep on Father Richard Rohr's podcast.
They were talking about how scary and painful midlife can be. Dr. Brown was speaking about her own experience when she said, "it's like walking the plank off the perfectly good ship I built, and ...
I couldn't write to you earlier this week because I was so up in my jacked up head, all I could think to say started with the f-word.
Four months ago, Sam and I moved to the high desert of New Mexico where he is doing cowboy stuff, and I'm writing a book. That sounds romantic, and it is, but New...
We concede too soon, accepting things that are close but not quite. We champion things that are more convenient than true. Perhaps we think it's easier to settle than to live with uncertainty.
But when the just-right happens, we know because it rattles our bones.
It's Thelma and Louise. It's Wh...
