Everybody has a Some Day
If you had told me a year ago that I would be sober in Sonoma (during crush, no less…), I would have thought you were having a laugh. And, yet, here I am. Coming up on eleven months of blissfully embracing an alcohol-free lifestyle and traveling through picturesque wine country in peak season. A very... Continue Reading →
London. The city where I fell in love with retail (and my partner…). The city where I became fascinated with corporate law and walking cities, paving the way for the life and career that lay ahead of me. The city where, almost twenty years later, I just celebrated the opening of my company’s first international... Continue Reading →
Let’s be real for a moment. This sh!t is hard. Which sh!t? All the sh!t. Be honest. Am I right? Some days, the world tells us that we should have it all together. But the reality is, we usually don’t. I’m not being hard on myself (or yourself). It’s just the truth. I fail at... Continue Reading →
I played enough Super Mario growing up to know that powering-up was where it was at. That moment when you got the Super Star or the Magic Mushroom took everything to the next level. Even if things weren’t going especially well for you leading up to that moment, the power-up was a total game changer. ... Continue Reading →
As lawyers, judgment is something that is inextricably woven into the fabric of our work and our professionally trained minds. Spend a little time on social media, and you’ll see judgement is also increasingly a foundation of our broader society’s interpersonal discourse. Yet, as humans, this disposition doesn’t always serve us. The other day, a... Continue Reading →
Being a grown up. That big move. Marriage. Having kids. The promotion you’ve been working towards. The career you thought you wanted. We have great expectations. About all sorts of things. And it’s wonderful and exciting. Developing a vision for what is possible is powerful and motivating. It’s that fire that keeps you engaged and... Continue Reading →
We often speak of our different lives. Our work life. Our personal life. Our family life. Isn’t it true, though, that we have only, as Mary Oliver says, “one wild and precious life”? Worthy of pondering is what you will do with it in this lease of unknown duration. Also worth considering, I believe, is... Continue Reading →
One of the things that has surprised me as I’ve progressed in my journey of humaning is the important role that grieving plays in growing, healing and evolving. Like perhaps many of us, I often associated grieving almost exclusively with death. And, of course, that is one of the most profound forms of grief and... Continue Reading →
Each year at this time, as the birds start to chirp and the cherry blossoms burst in the cool spring skyline, I am taken with the metaphor of rebirth. For as long as I can remember, and most certainly since I was old enough to yearn for something more, this time gave me hope,... Continue Reading →
Humaning is hard. There are so many layers of humaning. Many break your heart. Racial and social injustice. Inequity, systemic and otherwise. War. Violence. Illness. Pain. Loss. Disappointment. Then, you add in all of the societal stuff. The messages of not enough. From the world and internalized in our own conditioning. Too old. Too young. ... Continue Reading →