Bailing on the Baileys Too This will be my first dry Christmas in many years. I decided to stop drinking about 3 months ago and so far, so good. But now I realize I am wading into some new waters-the holiday season where alcohol is as ubiquitous as candy canes. …

2022: The Year of the Dumpster Fire Does the Chinese calendar have a Year of the Dumpster Fire? Or how about the Year of the Charlie Foxtrot? Nah. Prolly not. These were my thoughts as I thumbed through my 2022 Planner. I love planners. I love adding my goals at…

Should I Divorce? Isn’t It Powerful questions can bring insightful answers. Love me some powerful questions. It’s right up there with coaching’s other power tools: Deep listening, offering reflection and a dash of intuition. I get to witness this every time I see a client’s face light up with an…

I Thought I Knew Him His voice fades to the background. In TV land, this would be the part where the focus softens and the camera then pans to another background. “I’m thinking we need…” My sweetie is mentioning grocery items. But I am lost. There is a slight little…

It’s the Most Depressing Time of the Year *Sung to “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” Yeah, not feeling it this year. In the background, I am hearing holiday ads on the TV. I look at the calendar again. It’s the 5th. 20 more shopping days til Christmas…

I Hope Your Potty Has a Bidet Congratulations! Scars now occupy the place on your chest where your boobs were once. You’ve had chemo,and watched your hair drift from your scalp like autumn leaves. …

Learning To Roll With the Punches When Plans Go Awry He sent me a picture via text while I was enjoying what was going to be my last day in Michigan before heading back to Arizona. Well, sheee-it. We’ve been counting our blessings that so far, we have escaped Covid…

Aren’t You Stressed Out Enough? I did something I haven’t done in a very long time. I really didn’t want to, but what I did want was to support a loved one, so I did it. …

Recovery From Breast Cancer Treatment is Complicated I thought deciding to discontinue life support for my brother was hard. And it was. Even though we knew the liver failure and the cascading organ failure to follow pointed to one direction: Incompatibility with life. Death. To continue life support or not…