Self-Awareness
An Iterative Process & Spring Breakthroughs
April 25, 2012
Damien and I move forward in our life goals through an iterative process. For those of you unfamiliar with the term, it's geek speak for the cyclical process of refining an idea, with each refinement (or repetition) getting you closer to the desired goal. What this means practically is that ...
Writing a Mission Statement ~ Questions & Themes
April 18, 2012
When I wrote my own mission statement I looked to my past to see if I could find themes, threads of continuity that connected my past to my present. I figured these would also carry me into the future because if I still did these things, they are probably a ...
Spring Comes, Slowly
April 14, 2012
Spring comes late here. Some days it seems excruciatingly late. I miss flowers and green but there is the promise of new life. Soon. I've been focusing lately on appreciating right here and now. It's a discipline. Some days I'm good at doing it, some days I'm not. I need ...
Writing a Personal Mission Statement ~ A Roadmap for the Journey
April 11, 2012
What I wanted to define was a roadmap for me - an established homemaker, mother and wife. A woman who loves her family and has chosen a first career in serving them but is now ready to branch out, to bloom in other areas. A woman who is ready to ...
Hello April, Please Be Kind
April 4, 2012
I have debated for days whether I should write this post. Every time I sit down to write I have at least ten ideas on the go vying for my attention. So if I take the time to write about how difficult the month of March was those other ideas ...
On Being (and Saturday mornings)
March 31, 2012
On Saturday mornings I make baked apples for my family for breakfast. This is one of our family's food rituals, a touchstone to our week, and I love the comfort and simplicity of it. I drink my coffee. I cut the apples. I kiss and hug my children as they ...
Return To Center
March 23, 2012
Everybody has their individual practices that ground them and bring their focus back to those most important things in life. Yesterday I needed to reconnect with mine. I needed to come back to center. (I do love this phrase from the yoga world, though I don't practice yoga.) Computers are ...
