.png)
Happy birthday, America. We made it to 250 years—with elegant ideals and imperfect execution. With bold dreams and broken promises. With remarkable progress and painful setbacks. Major milestones require reflection and a reckoning. For me, the concept of WE resonates most at this 250-year mark.
Read this Musing
Today I share a guest musing from Allison Gustin - who artfully describes one of "those days". It turns out there’s a limit to what a person can calmly handle before dinner time. One of those days where absolutely nothing goes according to plan? Not catastrophically wrong. Just… relentlessly off.
Read this Musing
As humans, we do these three things: We make up “stories” or versions of our truth using only our viewpoint and with limited and biased data. We assume our stories are factual, that we are right. We craft stories that put us in the best possible light. The stories don't always serve us - here is how to know!
Read this Musing
In the spring of 2024, I walked away from a secure career with no real plan, no guarantees, and every statistical reason to believe I would fail. In spite of the risks and uncertainties, and against the advice of my work peers, I stepped into the unknown and took a leap of faith. And I learned a valuable lesson about the power of just starting.
Read this Musing
It was a bright early-summer morning, the kind that awakens you to good things. I set out for an outdoor adventure. There were many lessons that day.Yet one lesson from the rapids did not become clear to me until thirty years later.
Read this Musing
On my birthday eve, I set an intention to use this birthday to reflect on and share some of the wisdom I’ve accumulated over the past seven decades. That wisdom would be the fodder for this week’s musing. But I awoke with an “oh shit” moment! Nothing had arisen. There were no flashes of insight. No wise, pithy pearls of wisdom. And then I saw my fortune on my Yogi tea bag.
Read this Musing
Receive weekly insights from my years of lived experience as a creative, entrepreneurial woman stepping into my gifts and passions.
Join my Ripples Newsletter
