Personal Growth

My girls and I had been working on my wife for years to finally get a dog, and after a prolonged and persistent engagement, we finally wore her down. It had to be small, hypoallergenic and couldn’t shed. Fine, we can make that work. After some homework, we decided on...

You  ever find yourself shelving your life’s mission for what is comfortable? For what is seemingly dutiful? Do you feel you are living someone else’s purpose rather than your own? It happens to me. It happened today. I had carved out time this morning to write my blog. To create....

I spent so much of my life thinking small, thinking that I didn’t deserve better. Thinking, Who am I to contribute, to share, to be heard I haven’t done years of research on anyone topic, I don’t have a PhD at the end of my name.  But I do have...

“Who wants to be the leader?”  I smile as I scroll through the Zoom participants on my screen, wondering whom the instructor will select, yet intuitively knowing he will call my name.  “Karen, what about you?”  The invisible “I’ll go first” sign is something I’ve always carried–in life and in...

Connection We are simultaneously hardwired and starved for it. A recent study cited that over 50% of adults and nearly 80% of young adults admit to feeling lonely. Marginalized communities are even harder hit. (Learn more here.)  Vivek Murthy, Surgeon General of the United States, calls it a loneliness epidemic. ...

Life has been quite full this past week…and may have even overflowed a little. I’ve been sick with what I thought was a common cold. Turned out in the end to be round three of COVID… I had a less-than-appetizing post-nasal drip that I just couldn’t shake.   After falling asleep...