December 21, 2023 Rather than wait for the buzz and ball of New Year’s to review one’s progress and set new intentions, we might attune ourselves to the rhythms of nature and take this moment of the Winter Solstice as an opportunity for reflection. (It’s a rather arbitrary date, isn’t it, January 1st, to think…

December 5, 2023. and the beauty of the spider’s web They say it takes three times as many positive experiences to have a memorable impact on our slowly evolving lizard brain than one bad one. We’re primed to be on the lookout for snakes in the grass, rather than appreciate the beauty of the spider’s…

November 20, 2023 A Short Story on Waking Up Early I recently had a client ask what time I got up in the morning. 5am, I said. Pretty consistently, I add. (I had to confess to sleeping in this Sunday until 6). Oh, yeah, so then what time do you go to bed? 9pm, pretty…

November 14, 2023. Maybe it’s the menopause, or maybe its that I’ve finally succumbed to the habits of 21st century distraction, but my memory is a sieve! I remember in my 20s when I could keep the full calendar of classes, work schedule and social commitments in my mind, while also a mental rolodex of…

September 21, 2023. I’ve never really been a fan of the tech bro motto, “move fast and break things.” Sure, there are situations where the next step needs to be determined by decisive impulse, or where we are compelled by the speed of change to adapt quickly to a whole new normal. Sometimes innovation can…

June 4, 2023. I have been deep in the challenge of figuring out how to make my work in the world a force for good, something that nourishes our inner nature and purpose for being here, now, in this age of mass disruption. I’ll confess I’ve felt a lot of despair recently around the state…

May 12, 2023 I played hooky this week. A decade ago, even a few years ago, I might have felt guilty about it. I would not have even considered saying “yes” to skipping out on the daily grind—to stop staring anxiously at the never-ending To Do List with a kind of magical thinking that being…

April 14, 2023 when you don’t see the world in the same way The only argument of consequence my partner and I have regularly is whether it’s green or whether it’s blue. A t-shirt, a blossom in shade, the colour of the sky, the new duvet cover we can’t decide on… We see the opposite…

March 31, 2023 Turning the Saboteurs Inside-Out i’ve been stuck in the muck. Despite two decades living in the Pacific Northwest where spring comes early in vibrant yellows and purples and almost vulgar pinks, i still remember how the advent of the new season Out East felt like a rut you just couldn’t get out…

February 13, 2023 A short story of my un-doing Have you ever woken up suddenly one day wondering, what on earth am i doing here? That was me about this time last year. i don’t think i’d ever been so sick. Most mornings i would wake up in a flurried panic, on very little sleep,…