I picked up the razor in my shower today, white with a pink handle, doubled edged for smoothness maximus. It’s been neglected the poor thing as has been the shampoo and conditioner, the conditioner which has been on its last leg since March but has held on only due to Covid and the scarcity of showering …

We got a pandemic puppy. It wasn’t the first time I impulsively purchased a pet to solve some problem in my life. The last time was to save my first marriage. It made perfect sense: when you have a two-year-old, a full-time job and you’re married to a chronically ill, addict who can’t function, the …

Twice this week I was jolted out of my meditation in the seventieth minute by a puppy bounding through my office door and biting my nose. If you’ve never been seventy minutes into a meditation and had a puppy bound in through your carefully closed office door, and bite you on the nose, imagine this: …

I’ve had to write a few bio’s lately and let me tell you, it’s daunting. The truth of the matter is my crowning achievements…are a little out of the box. Here are two of my all-time greatest successes. Number One: The day my son had no lunch in between his double-header, and I didn’t feel guilty or exasperated. …

Having dug myself out of the funk I mentioned in my last blog, I woke on Monday feeling myself getting pulled back in, because…well, as Alexander and The Terrible Horrible No Good Day says, “Some days are like that.” True confessions: After finishing a big project the night before, I celebrated with a glass of wine. Afterwards, I predictably …

My starter is broken. What I mean to say is, I feel like a car engine that won’t turn over. Ironically, this awareness came to me as I struggled all week with my inability to come up with an idea for this blog post. I’m pretty sure having the luxury of being stuck over a …

As our country begins to open up, people are scrambling to determine whether and how much to allow themselves and their kids back into the world. When I speak with women, some sound confessional (regardless of which way they’re leaning), while others are throwing their hands up without a clue of how to proceed. I can …

There is a vastness to my days now; one I’m not usually afforded. There’s no morning rush or school tardy to avoid. I have nowhere to be at any certain time, and nowhere to go even if I wanted to. My days are fluid with little appointed times to break them up save for zoom …

A few years back I was in a coaching group with terribly intimidating people – a gold medal athlete, a world class speaker, a surgeon, an actor, even a naturopath who recently treated the highest paid actress in the country. There were twenty-four of us there leveraging our speaking abilities by learning how to tell …

My great Aunt El used to wake up every morning, heave herself to the side of the bed, gaze at the ceiling and say; “God, please let me be nice to my sister Gertrude today.” It never worked. Gertrude was…well…on a dimmer light-switch setting, and Aunt El, like most of us, struggled to maintain emotional …

Often when I encourage women to focus on themselves, I’m met with a sour look of judgment on their face, as though they pity the spouse and children who are saddled with such a selfish hag. There’s a total misconception of what it means to take care of yourself, and I’m here to slay it. …

Long ago I treated a couple named Doug and Melissa (names changed for privacy). On the third session, Melissa came in and let the cat out of the bedroom. “The real reason we’re here is because I’m unhappy with our sex life.” “Oh?” I said raising an eyebrow. “But Doug refuses to talk about it.” …

What if I told you that losing your inner peace is not only an emergency, it’s the only emergency? I know we ladies tend to get wrapped up in the issues of everyone around us, and sometimes the things going on in our lives really do feel urgent. Let me assure you, they are not. They …