I’ll be honest, I feel pretty ill and haggard right now. Here’s how you know I’m truly sick– a) I couldn’t understand why people are knitting “pussy hats” with ears on them, b) I postponed the Wise Women Book Club, even though we’re discussing Love Warrior, the greatest book of the century, and it’s something I have […]

As you’re reading this, it’s my 40th birthday. So I am typing this on Wednesday, because on Friday I plan to be deeply asleep on silky hotel sheets, sleeping the luscious sleep of the mother of five on her own for a rare delicious window of solitude and self-nurturing. I’m not going to wake up […]

It’s hard here. I bet it’s hard there, too. The people I love most are in excruciating pain and fear. Hate crimes are on the rise. We are all stressed out to the max, and it means that it’s hard to carry on. We want to act, but everything feels stupid and small and pointless. […]

Let’s talk about kindness. I am hearing a lot about kindness: about how in these divisive times we must love each other. Oh, how I agree. But let us be clear. If someone is being kicked on the playground, kindness does not just stand and watch. When someone is on fire, kindness doesn’t meditate on the healing […]

You, wise and glorious one, are in possession of an incredible set of tools. Tools that will make your world bigger.  Tools that put you in touch with your own feminine power.  Tools that let you feel joy more fully. But I bet no one ever taught you to use them.  It would be my […]