It’s Not About The Money: 5 Steps To Moving Out Of Financial Fear

5 steps to get rid of financial anxiety. Look around you, at your friends, extended family and even your co-workers and mutual acquaintances. Doesn’t it seem like everyone you know is navigating through some financial issue or situation? Ask any one of those people what the biggest, most stressful area of their life is and odds are, their answers will involve money in some form.…

Stop, Look and Listen to YOU!

  I heard a Verizon Wireless ad the other day that ended with something like this:  because we all want more! Indirectly it was referring to a data plan, but directly it was trying to grab us in our unconscious buying place.…

I Could Have Had a V-8!

Suicide or Riot elicited a lot of heart-felt comments: “my heart aches for a world that communicates with their fingers rather than from their hearts, which cuts us off from the conversations that are crucial to our souls”, “support is everything… you’re not meant to do this alone” and “listen to others as we would want others to listen to us.”…

Suicide or Riot—you choose.

I struggled with which blog to write: the one about depression and Robin William’s suicide or the one about the riot after the shooting of yet another black youth (this as my bi-racial grandson heads down to the Deep South for college). …

Keeping Up With The Irresponsibles

John Legend and Colby Caillait are hitting a collective nerve with almost 20 million views in the first week of their new music videos. Legend’s You and I and Colbie Caillait’s Try,  shake you up,  question your values and toss you out of your comfort zone but for two different reasons.…

Summer Sighs

Every July we spend some extended time DownEast.  It’s our special place and our special time. I wrote this blog a few years ago but love repeating it every summer.  Hope you don’t mind….   I’ve been on a two week vacation in Robbinston, Maine, a very tiny town with no town center and only 500 or so people in almost 34 square miles.  …

Everyday Decisions: Another Perspective

“Isn’t that interesting” is an attitude I try to remember whenever I have strong feelings about something.  When I look at life with curiosity instead of judgment I can stay open to consider other perspectives.  One of my followers sent me his perspective of my recent Everyday Decisions blog. …

Stop the world – it’s time to get off!

Holidays are a great excuse to stop our “normal” world and do something different. Whether we join in the festivities or not, we can just unplug and do nothing (or at least nothing as compared to our everyday lives). If you were lucky and didn’t have to work on the 4th of July, I hope you were able to do something different, something out of the ordinary—even if that was just watching mindless TV without feeling guilty!…

Downeast – and not spending is easy.

I just got back from a weekend Downeast—a remote part of Maine where not much happens.  Lots and lots of natural beauty but when it comes to the things in life that we usually take for granted, it’s a different world. …