A lot of people live in a perpetual state of limbo.   And not the fun party game; the emotional wasteland.  It’s a grayed-out, dulled-out, parched-out zone of ‘what if’ and ‘maybe someday.’ Maybe someday I’ll fit back into this.    Maybe I’ll look back at these notes and turn them into a proposal.  […]

Chances are, you’re making life much harder than it needs to be.   One of the wonderful women in The Queen Sweep reminded me this week of a fabulous word: Withershins.   (or, as I’d always seen it, widdershins.  I can’t help but try to say it with a Scottish accent.  If i’s not Scottish, i’s crap!  Okay, […]

Money can be scary. So scary, in fact, that some of us do a mighty fine ostrich imitation when it’s time to talk about it. But this week in The Queen Sweep we’re looking into our wallets, and boy oh boy does it bring up our STUFF. So this week I’ve got three things for […]

Confession time.  I am cranky. To be exact, everything is bugging the SHIT out of me right now. This is embarrassing because a) I’m supposed to be a master life coach oh wait I AM a master life coach, and b) my life is so, so good right now. I’m all “Oh my life is so full […]

The truth is, the little things matter. Like the fact that you put on earrings today. Yup, I noticed. When you rested your hand gently on your friend’s shoulder. Yup, she felt it. That extra $2 you added to the tip just because. Yup, noted. All those diapers you changed, the accounts you reconciled, the […]