Aside from the week of November 29 – December 7, this week is the toughest of the year for me. November 29th is my mother’s birthday. December 7th was my mother’s day of death. Sunday is Mother’s Day. My mother has been gone since December 7, 1995 when I was 22 and my brothers were [...]

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. –  Joseph Campbell Truth be told, I need to reclaim my sacred space. My sacred space is where I feel balanced emotionally.  My emotional equilibrium is off kilter. I couldn’t even tell you if it’s off in a good or bad way. There [...]

You are one crazy bitch. Every couple of weeks you creep up on me. You wake me in the middle of the night. I stare at the ceiling trying to ignore you telling me to get out of bed. I pace the house trying to make myself believe I am too tired to do whatever [...]

I lost my heart and a piece of my soul this weekend. My heart has sunk and hasn’t returned. My soul craves the next competition because I know I can win. I know I can win because I have won in the past. For today, I am raw with emotion. Losing* stings my heart and [...]

Life isn’t about work. That’s the overwhelming life lesson I learned this week. It’s been a crazy life the last few months. My focus has been on business and I am pleased to have landed my biggest deal this month. Life isn’t about getting the biggest deal. Life is about what getting the biggest deal [...]

Today I am a writer without words. I am speechless. I won another speech contest last night. I represented my Toastmasters club East Valley Echoes in the Saguaro Area 3 International and Table Topics Contests. While I didn’t win the Table Topics (impromptu speech) contest, I gave what can only be described as a Miss [...]

No matter how many people tell me I don’t look a day past 30-ish, the reality cannot be ignored. It is 101 days until I turn 40. That is reality. It is reality that that my hair is dyed every five weeks. I own and use a pair of reading glasses. For my entire adulthood it [...]

There is an art for how to ask a question. It is part of the art of conversation. I fear I am not that good at either. It’s fear that causes me to not ask a lot of questions. When I ask questions, I get so wrapped up in the answer I forget what I [...]

My friend read the Words Matter: Magnificent Obsession blog post and made an observation. He said that while I had asked my readers for their obsession, I hadn’t revealed my own. Ouch! That hurt a little. My magnificent obsession is writing. Constantly on record, making mental and written notes of events, people and places. That’s [...]

I wish I could tell you how to tell if your weekend was epic based solely on my personal experience. I have to give credit where credit is due and say that this list is a compilation. You know who you are and while I may not have taken copious notes, I was paying close [...]