Pinball Ping pong Monkey mind Full Overstimulated No room to think Jarring Abrupt Painful Depleted Exhausted Too much clamoring in my...

The moment I walked by the white wooden arbor of lush blooming roses, the sweet, soft scent greeted me and wrapped its perfume all around...

I went paddling last night for the first time in what seems like months.  What a way to end my long workday, to head out into the water...

There’s this little voice that keeps peeking its’ head from around the corner at me. “Hellooooo...” Oh boy. I don’t always like this...

My home burned down in the Malibu-Agoura firestorm on October 23, 1978. I was in 8th grade and I often think about what it must have...

It literally took me 3 hours to settle this monkey-mind down enough to sit and begin to write this morning. It’s been months since I have...

We aspire to become, don’t we? Always looking for that which marks us as “me”. I’m becoming a grandma for the first time, this month,...

End of the work week. One day off. Feeling anxious about choosing how to spend my time. So many things I haven’t had time to do…...

I was in 3rd grade. It seemed to take my mom hours to drive our 1979 tan Bronco up that curvy road to the open field behind my...

I was a little girl when my grandparents had their walnut farm in Le Grand. My grandparents were down-to-earth, simple, hard-working...

She was only 10 years old and she had just won the “best crash” award. Our family was on a 140-mile cycling trip through Tuscany. Tuscany...

It was mid-week and work had been relentlessly busy. Trying to get to the end of a project felt like I was trudging through wet cement....

The deepest of peace and true happiness can only really be found when we are truly still in the present moment, so they say. So often I...

2020 has been quite a year. Many of us have experienced hardship and much heartache. But, in January, I had this feeling that this was...

I’d never used trekking poles before. They steadied me and helped immensely as I navigated up and down the steep terrain. Headed for a...

My home burned down in the Malibu-Agoura firestorm on October 23, 1978. I was in 8th grade and I often think about what it must have...

Stand up paddling. The morning is perfect. Glassy water, sun glistening, the quiet of the bay since the summer visitors are gone. It’s...

I’m in it with you. The day was long. I sat on the concrete slab near the water watching as the sun slipped behind the hills to my back....

Today was a beautiful, relaxing day. As I sat at my kitchen table this morning, a cool breeze with all the promises of fall blew through...

A couple weeks ago was an especially rough week. As a matter of fact, a week ago I hit a very low spot, feeling very depressed, the kind...