From the category archives:

Philosophical

How Making A Plan Frees You From Needing The Plan

March 9, 2010

My head’s been stuffed absolutely full of wonderful productivity and strategizing ideas lately.
During Lift Off, Pam and Charlie spent a lot of time working with us (and helping us to work with ourselves and each other) on our plans for our lives and for our businesses. They wanted to know: what were our superpowers? What [...]

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Love Lifted Me

March 5, 2010
Saguaro Lake Ranch Arizona

It’s a beautiful old hymn that I used to sing in church when I was a girl. I can still hear the tinny piano music and the voices of the sweet older ladies, earnestly harmonizing together to make a beautiful haunting sound on a Sunday morning.
Love lifted me… love lifted me… when nothing else could [...]

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I Heart My Assistant

February 18, 2010

I just wanted to let you know that, thanks to the beautiful awesomeness of my ninja assistant (or is that assistant ninja?), I did NOT work last evening, and instead I curled up on the couch with my husband and we watched a movie.
Thank you, Sarah, for the extra time. It’s priceless. (I don’t think [...]

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Stuff That Doesn’t Suck: Monday Edition

February 15, 2010
Montezuma Castle, Arizona, Jan 2007

I noticed something today.
A lot of you are having a bad case of Everything Sucks. Ugh.
And actually, I was having it too (I woke up feeling all sick-ish and my throat is kinda scritchy and sore and I keep sneezing, which does not make me feel happy), and then, quite by accident, I tried cheering [...]

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Motherhood and Business, Mostly

January 28, 2010

I woke up to the wind blowing so hard it sounded like it was trying to take the roof off the house altogether, or at least bully it into falling off by itself. I also woke up to some small person in the bathroom, although whoever-it-was was trying very hard to be quiet, so points [...]

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My Super Short Hair (Is Kind Of Weird)

January 23, 2010

So this hair! It’s odd, guys.
By now, I am used to not having any. It doesn’t brush my shoulders or my neck. It doesn’t get in my way, EVER. It’s easy to wash, easy to forget about. For the first few weeks, I actually kept forgetting to take SHOWERS because I was accustomed to my [...]

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