It’s a fabulously fun Friday here in Portland.   While you’re reading this, I’m with a wonderful client who’s flown in for a VIP day.  We’re doing very hard and difficult Important Things like getting a massage, eating French cuisine, and talking about All The Big Questions.  Tough gig, I know. But before I could […]

There’s a downside to having a supersmart seven-year-old living in your house.   Witness the following exchange: “Mommy!  Will you read to me?” “No, honey, I’m doing dishes.” “Mommy!  Can’t you read to me instead and do them later?” “No, honey, I have to do them right now.” “Ha!  You do not HAVE to do them. […]

  So last night I burned dinner. CHARRED it.   Not blackened; not crispy; not grilled.  I took a bite and it was like eating a charcoal briquette. And then– this part is embarrassing– I was a total whiney brat about it.  I banged things, and said bad words, and sent epithet-laced texts to my […]

  Have I mentioned that I’m scared of everything?  Indeed.  One of my clients told me this week that she didn’t believe me, but it’s true– I’m a total chickenshit. Which means, ironically, that I have a lot of practice being brave.  Since EVERYthing scares me, I have to practice being a bad-ass on a […]

Let’s pretend, just hypothetically, that you’re a little tired.  Even though of course you’re not. You don’t DO tired.  You do bounds and leaps and superhuman feats. I know. But let’s say that ONE day you found yourself unaccountably weary.  Uncharacteristically beat. Unfathomably exhausted.  Shall I go on? Here’s what you do then. ….Not much. Today’s […]