I have always loved little things. A red ladybug crawling on a leaf. A small ceramic condiment dish tossed in a trash heap outside a pottery studio in Okinawa. The tiny animals that used to come in boxes of Red Rose Tea that sat together on my grandmother’s mantel. A pebble plucked from millions of…
Now that I have decided to resurrect my blog after years of neglect, I am struck by just how different the shrinking blogging world is now. Mainly, AI exists!! How do I use it? Should I use it? BLOGGING HAS CHANGED As I look back at all of my earlier posts from 2014-2022, I am…
The other day I found a planner from early January 2023. It was so full of ambition and ideas: another senior model program, publishing and marketing my Mindful Photography Challenge book, relaunching my Youtube channel, expanding my garden, building a coaching business, creating an online photography class. All of that ended when a meteor crashed…
Learning how to analyze your dreams can give you insights into thoughts, feelings, and desires that you may be too busy, or unwilling to acknowledge during waking hours. Furthermore, our subconscious is at play in dreams, influencing what shows up in them. By paying attention to our dreams we can tap into the insights of…
I’ve been trying to be a better friend to myself for about 5 years now. For most of my life I had pretty harsh voices in my head, like my inner critic, my judge, and my task-master. Over time, this has a pretty negative impact on my well-being. At some point, I began to question…
It’s easy to make friends when you are young and in school, surrounded by people your age who are also eager to make friends. This changes, however, as you get older. Most adults between the ages of 40-60 have busy lives, families of their own to manage, work schedules to juggle, and established social…
Interstitial Journaling, a combination of time-tracking and journaling, is an excellent to develop awareness about how you spend your time. And that awareness can lead to some really positive changes in behavior. WHY DO INTERSTITIAL JOURNALING? As someone who has overcommitted to projects and tasks my entire life, I’m always on the look out for…
So how are those New Year’s resolutions going? Have you already broken half of them? For most of my life, that was me! I would create massive lists of New Year’s resolutions in the belief that if I only kept one or two I would still be ahead in the game of life. But I…
I still remember my inner critic talking to me before I published my first YouTube video a few months ago. “What are you doing! You can’t go on YouTube! You’re too old! Your video skills are too basic. No one is going to watch. You’ll look foolish!” Fortunately, I had been working on my inner…
We all want to feel happy, to lead happy, fulfilling lives. The pursuit of happiness is enshrined in our constitution! And yet, many of us feel depleted, burnt out, overwhelmed. That’s where a self-care action plan can help! My Story I’ve spent years trying to figure out how to find some measure of happiness in…