I love living in San Francisco. So much energy, creativity, big shit happening (in my best Ab Fab voice). The downside of so much shit happening: SO MUCH PRESSURE to go big. But how often do we stop to ask, "Is bigger better right now?" A lot of us are sitting on ideas that could …
Category: Work Life Balance
A Drama This Momma Can Handle
"What, you're doing it again? I thought you said you were finished acting?" Words I heard more than a few times after agreeing to reprise my rendition of Saundra Dern in the play "Stretchmarks: Growing Into Motherhood" last weekend at the Children's Creativity Museum. The play, co-written, produced, directed, and acted in by my dear …
A Return To The Garden
And just like that, a year passes and spring returns revealing the gardens we once planted. Asking us to come back and start again. But always from a place that has grown more than we could have ever imagined. I can't believe that last year at this time my father had 25 days to live. …
Don’t. Just Don’t.
"So, what did you do today?" What an oppressive question. I ask it of myself over and over and over throughout any given day. If you're like me, you wake up on the weekend, especially for those of us white collar folks in the crowd, with a to-do list as long as Santa's nice list. …
Laser Focus on What Matters…To Me
Lately everyone I talk to seems to be going through some transition, transformation, or major life challenge. People are struggling with relationships, finances, career choices...you know the drill. For those of us privileged enough to make it to middle-age, life tends to get bigger, more intense, and the decisions we make are now more important …
Dear Inner Monologue, Please Shut Up and Let Me Get on With it.
Is that inner monologue eating you up? Does the sense of "esprit d'escalier" plague you with the things you wish you'd thought to say the last time you encountered an ex-lover, current boss, or irritating friend? Many of us chatter to ourselves all the time coming up with great point/counterpoint dialogue to hash through past …
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Big Girl Branding. A Marketing Heroine With Balls. #BlogIn5
Yes you girl, you're the first. Not because you embody the perfect marketing blogger with soul and are my inspiration, but because you get it, you do it, and you make it look sexy. Oh, and you had the perfect blog post about your favorite bloggers. It was almost like you heard my call and …
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Those Who Do and Those Who Talk about it.
This year I vowed to do it more. No, I'm not talking about sex. Although, that might be more interesting. But maybe not. Actually, this year I vowed to write more and publicly. I started my blog in October and have slowly gained the courage and inspiration to blog regularly thanks mostly to the positive …
10 Reasons Why Vacations Matter
Wow, what’s with the furor about the first lady taking a vacation with her youngest daughter to Spain. After all she just went to Andalusia, a relatively inexpensive, unexplored by Americans, region in Spain (I wish she’d taken me with her). It’s not like she went to the South of France. Clipped from: http://www.monstersandcritics.com (share …
What Matters Now?
Everyone seems to be asking that question and here’s a cool little e-book I ran across that seems useful to pondering. It’s a collection of essays written by some very respected thinkers and creators and published by Seth Godin. Check out the impressive line up cloud. Uploaded with plasq's Skitch! The opening essay “Generosity” by …
Mary Gilbert 