“Mommy, why are you crying?”Damn it.  Busted.I wiped my eyes and smiled at my kiddo.  “I’m okay— I’m just sad because a magazine didn’t want to publish something I’d written.”She crawled into my lap, long legs and elbows and all, and gave me a hug.  She’s pretty great like that. I felt a little sheepish […]

My mind is a bad neighborhood, and I try not to go there alone after dark.  ~Anne Lamott I love this quote so much, and when I first read it in my early twenties, I laughed out loud with recognition.It perfectly described my inner reality– full of horrible hateful graffiti, and trailing barbed wire, and despair everywhere.My mind is […]

It was FANTASTICALLY FABULOUS to hug so many of you last weekend!!! It was World Domination Summit here in Portland, when a couple thousand visionaries and entrepreneurs gather to talk about how to live a remarkable life in a conventional world.If you were at our Queen Sweep + Martha Beck tribe meetup and for some reason you didn’t […]

  Hey!!! I’m holding a little hoopla in Portland TOMORROW, Sat 7/11– so if you’re in town, stop by and say hello!This week in The Queen Sweep Master Class we are talking about priorities.This is right around the time when these brave women of valor and glory start to bang their heads against walls and turn […]

Hey!!! I’m holding a little hoopla in Portland next Sat, 7/11– so if you’re in town, stop by and say hello!The other day I was on the phone with a new coach.She sighed.”I’d really like to create a program like your Queen Sweep,” she said.”Something with essays, and exercises, and phone calls…but it seems so overwhelming. […]