In the last issue entitled Design Your Time, the Call to Action was to take a fresh look at your daily and weekly routines to make sure your long-term goal is showing up on your schedule. Now let’s address the issue of motivation — getting yourself to show up to that newly allocated time slot. Read more
In July of this year my husband, Jess, and I took a road trip to California. We drove from Scottsdale to Los Angeles, made several stops up the Pacific Coast Highway, and got as far north as Monterey. One Sunday we stopped in Carmel for breakfast before making that winding drive along the Big Sur coast. Read more
I often joke that Letting Go has been one of my lifelong lessons. I say this with self-compassion and a colorful, true-story collection of Letting Go mishaps and victories. I continue to practice the artful balance of control and letting go. Over the years, I’ve become more comfortable with change. I’ve learned to trust and even to enjoy many of life’s question marks. Read more
Earlier this year a new caregiver couple moved into my mother’s group home. Prior to their retiring, the former caregivers tended to my mother for three years with great love and kindness. This changeover could have been a time of apprehension but I was reassured by an interaction that first week. While setting the table and about to serve that evening’s dinner, Delia remarked: “I hope they like it. I put my soul into it.” Read more
Today’s issue is #3 is a three-part series and is a follow-up to: A Good Day
Whatever makes you happy. Depending on the context, that phrase can sound trite, if not sarcastic. It seems on some level, we think happiness is a luxury that dare not be entertained in a world with so many problems. Yet now more than ever, I believe that happiness and joy are essential to our lives. Borrowing a line from a Maya Angelou quotation, “We need joy as we need air.” Read more
Today’s issue is #2 is a three-part series and a follow-up to: Why Should You Be Happy?
You get this question all the time. You pose it to your loved ones upon arrival at home. In response you might hear anything from: Pretty good; It was okay, to: Lousy, don’t even ask. Is a good day when good things happen to you and a bad day the opposite? Perhaps on some level, yes, though there’s more to it. Read more
These three incidents happened about 11 years ago, within a period of 12-18 months: Read more
Last Monday I placed a birthday call to my Aunt Louise who turned 95. We reminisced about a variety of things including the first time her husband asked her out on a date and the full wardrobe of handmade clothes she made for my Barbie dolls when I was a child — so detailed and fashionable that I never coveted the manufactured Barbie clothes advertised on TV. Read more
Moving through life with greater joy and abandon. That’s the tag line for In the Current®. Over the past few years, I’ve been raising my awareness about what the “abandon” piece of that tag line means and how I want to live that more fully. A few weeks ago, after a particular event, several insights came to me and I quickly wrote them down to share with you. Read more
Earlier this year I spent some time with my parents, helping out as my mother recovered from surgery. Their neighborhood pharmacy in Somers, NY is privately owned, the kind you might remember from your childhood, where the pharmacist actually knows your name. One day while stopping by to fill a prescription for my mother, the pharmacist and owner, Matt Golden, informed me it would be a few days before I could pick it up, as that particular medication needed to go through the referral process. Read more