more and more these days i am finding along my winding path, gifts of enormous grace, like flowers petals under my feet as i step into one moment and then the next. there is a crack of light i can see a glimpse of, on my journey just ahead and i know as i travel [...]

i had the best time yesterday (gosh was it only yesterday?) with these three fabulous ladies. the bighearted jamie ridler was in town for a workshop and inspired this tantalizing gettogether and art picnic hosted by leah.  we had the yummiest soup, the best happy news, fresh fall flowers, tea and apple cider donuts, sweet [...]

if someone would have said to me a year ago that i would soon be spending time with a buddhist priest, sitting down to have a glass of wine with her and talk about zen, motherhood and love, i would have most certainly replied, “are you nuts?”.
well saturday afternoon along the perfect path of my [...]

when you’re a busy mom and you’re running around getting stuff ready for your son’s birthday party and working on a book deadline and checking off to-do’s for an event the next day and keeping up with your website and managing family life, you don’t mind at all when you glance over and find that [...]

it’s a pretty sure bet that when i go MIA from this space, life has gotten pretty messy (and not in a good way)… like a tricky transition back to school. like having an infection. like having sick kids and sleepless nights. like having contractors surprise you then move into your house for 2 weeks. [...]

write a book… create to-die-for ecourse… take on creative lifestyle clients… clean out my closets… paint my living room a wild and dreamy shade of blue… drape a canopy and twinkle lights around my bed… make fresh salsa for all my neighbors from our garden tomatoes… go cold weather shopping and buy sweaters, boots, and [...]