Inspired by a dear friend, I’ve started picking themes for my year. Like a good playlist for a party, picking a theme sets the tone for the year and makes it easy to connect all...

I was at Kripalu this past weekend to take a storytelling course with Matthew Dicks. Matt’s an astonishingly gifted storyteller who’s appeared on many stages. Heard of...

We can’t control what happens to us, but we get to choose how we respond and how we tell our story.

Chelsea Dinsmore is an amazing role model of not only surviving the unsurvivable, but...

Before we left for Kilimanjaro, I’d read that we’d hear the phrase pole pole (say pole-ay pole-ay) a lot. It means slowly in Swahili, and it’s what...

Carl Jung said You are what you do, not what you say you’ll do. My version: We aren’t what we don’t do, even if we really want to be.

Do you want to be a...

Grab a piece of paper and a pen. Now write down the first thoughts that come to mind when I ask Who are you? Take a couple of minutes and write it all down.

Excellent. Now, read...

Believe it or not, one of the keys to getting me up and down Mount Kilimanjaro was a hat. Not just any hat, but THE HAT OF MINDFULNESS.

Before we left, I bought myself a wide-brimmed...

In which a destination person learns to appreciate the journey.

Before we left on our Kilimanjaro triumph, I wrote about how the journey is the destination. Truth be told, I believed that...

We made it. We made it! We made it.

On September 10 (my husband’s birthday), we realized our goal of summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. At 19,341 feet, it’s Africa’s...

It’s been an incredible amount of hard work to train for our Kilimanjaro trip. And hard work demands a mantra.

Sometimes I find myself slogging through a strength workout, wondering if...