A No-Squirm Way to Meditate

I’ve been meditating for 60 days straight. It all began a few months ago when it started getting light earlier in the morning. I noticed how beautiful my bedroom looked in the morning light and realized I hardly spent any time there except getting ready for bed, getting dressed in the morning, and sleeping in…

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Decision-Making Part 2: Tools

Part 2 In a 3-Part Series In last week’s blog, I shared about decision-making and how it’s not what we think it is. We tend to think it’s very logical, analytical, and reasoned, when in fact it’s a very emotion-based process. Check out Decision-Making: Faking You Out Big Time! to learn about the parts of the…

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Solar Eclipse 2017

We woke up at 4am, put a case of Mason jars filled with rain water in the trunk of the car, grabbed my moonstone pendant, and headed down I-5 to Salem, OR. That was four years ago yesterday, and my son and I were on our way to witness a total solar eclipse. It was…

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How Do You Like to Work?

I like to do things BIG, all out, no half-stepping. I take on huge projects, plan and organize them, implement them (usually with lots of cursing throughout), and then I’m done. Making a pottery studio in my home. Remodeling my house. Creating an urban farm (three times). Starting my own business (twice). Doing a van…

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My first destination

My first destination was Kansas City to visit my dear friend, Margaret, and to teach a Birthing From Within workshop. Twenty-six hours of driving divided by four days = six hours driving a day. Pretty reasonable. Getting through Eastern Washington and Idaho was a breeze. But Montana went on and on and on. But what…

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