I Feel Better

These days, I feel good almost all of the time. And if I feel bad, it doesn’t last long. This was not always true for me. Back in the day, if I had a fight with my husband, I felt terrible—for days and days. After an argument (thankfully, a rare occurrence) I spent...

Accepting Reality

Last Saturday I took my 2 ½ year old son to the beach. I tried to pare down my load as much as possible because it was a long walk from the car to the beach. I only had: My beach chair My son’s beach chair A cooler with lunch and snacks in it Beach toys (bucket,...

No Sugar Life Is Still Sweet

This past month I decided to give up sugar. I have never been much of a sweets lover—until I had my son. Then I went on a KitKat kick. No other candy interested me, but I ate a few of those snack-sized KitKats every day. Then, one day, Peppermint Patties became my new...

How Do You Want To Feel Today?

For the past few months, I’ve been asking myself the same question every morning: How do I want to feel today? Most of us ask ourselves questions all the time, and there is usually one that we ask over and over again—Susan Hyatt and Brooke Castillo call it the Primary...

It’s Perfect—Always

Recently my husband was adding a form to my website and he somehow made the whole website disappear from my computer. I have no idea how he did this (neither does he) but when he told me, I just said, “Okay, that’s fine.” And I meant it. I thought, I must need to...

It’s Not You…It’s Me

A good friend, Jane, recently called me to vent about her husband. She’s married, has  three beautiful children and a full-time teaching job. She said, “I was enjoying a yogurt after clearing the table, filling the dishwasher, and cleaning off the island, when Pete...