Apr 5, 2018 | Healing, Inspiration, Parenting
This is the house where I lost myself. Eighteen years ago, that little bungalow felt palatial to us, and Brad and I were thrilled to put our stamp on our first real home. It would become the house where we’d start a family, and we were so excited to meet our...
Jun 5, 2014 | Angels, Inspiration, Parenting
I am so glad to be alive. Two weeks ago, the universe had a chance to pluck me and my little guy right off this spinning planet. But instead, we got a crash course in divine intervention. Thank God. Two Fridays ago, I was on the phone with a friend who’s been...
Mar 10, 2014 | Inspiration, Parenting
I cringed when I read this headline in yesterday’s Star Tribune: New Age thinking helped turn this North High team around. I knew right away what the article would say: that yet another sports team had experienced great success after supplementing their...
Jan 2, 2014 | Angels, Intuition, Parenting
When I was a little girl, I could fly. I’m not talking about the times my dad would lift me in the air and twirl me above the crowd, nor about my great big imagination carrying me off to faraway places. I’m telling you heart-to-heart, hand-to-God: I flew....
Sep 26, 2013 | Intention, Parenting
Friends, you’ll get such a kick out of what happened here this morning! My 10 year old, Ryder, and his neighborhood friends have loved spending time after school in the autumn sunshine, kicking and catching a football in the street. He can literally spend hours...
Sep 5, 2013 | Inspiration, Parenting
Well, this will go down as a week that gave me plenty of reminders that the best laid plans are usually those I didn’t make and couldn’t predict. Just like John Lennon whispered to his son Sean in Beautiful Boy: “Life is what happens to you while...
Sep 3, 2013 | Inspiration, Parenting
This isn’t how today was supposed to go. My big boy, Ryder, strutted off to fifth grade as planned (how did he get to be a fifth grader!?), but we’d long imagined that on this day, he’d have his little brother tagging along. Not long after Truman was...
Aug 28, 2013 | Parenting, Purpose
While I was leading a recent workshop about the importance of finding and sharing your inner sparks – the passions, talents or interests that light you up from the inside out – a woman (we’ll call her Linda) approached me during our lunch break, eyes...
Aug 20, 2013 | Parenting, Purpose, Uncategorized
Okay, okay. So my 10 year old may not be a business expert quite yet. In fact, he’s only run a business for one day this year, hosting his own lemonade stand last week. But he did it so well ($33 in two and a half hours) and learned so much in the process, I...