I find I’ve been thinking a lot about boxes. The boxes we find ourselves in. The boxes we put ourselves in. The boxes our world puts us in. Not to mention, the boxes of the shoulds. Of identity. The boxes of how we’ve always seen ourselves or thought we had to be. The boxes of... Continue Reading →
Some Days, We Flirt With Our Daydreams
Daydreams are the seeds from which all the flowers grow… After all, what is a dream but a vision? Look at any creative undertaking (in which, I would include all types of entrepreneurial ventures and building things more broadly, including building a life) and you will see that the vision (the dream) is an integral... Continue Reading →
Some Days, We See the Forest for the Trees
I was in Idyllwild earlier this week, immersing myself in a Me-Treat focused on a meaningful creative project and getting ready for the Some Days, May Flowers Spring Retreat. Spring has sprung and all I could think as I walked through the enchanted forest was “Goddess Camp.” Everywhere I looked, I saw whimsy and wonder.... Continue Reading →
Some Days, We Need Our Compass
Some days, we find ourselves adrift in a sea of “shoulds.” And “coulds.” Even a lot of “goods.” We open our phones. A book. A podcast. A conversation. And the floodgates open. So much external noise underscores what has always been true. The answer we are looking for often lies within. I was talking with... Continue Reading →
Some Days, We Retrace Our Steps
This fall, my husband and I decided to make good on a long-deferred Some Day. Some Day, we will take our son to UCLA for a fall football weekend. My alma mater. Games were an activity I admittedly did not partake in as much as I could have while I was there. However, to me,... Continue Reading →
Some Days, We (Re)Introduce Ourselves
For many years now, I have explored the age-old question of who am I? Like, really? When you get beneath the exterior, when things get quiet, the clouds part and the skies clear, who am I in my essence? Still working on that… But, a parallel we invariably find ourselves confronting regularly, whether we’ve found... Continue Reading →