My jury summons appeared in the mail last week, asking me to report for duty on Monday, November 5th. I looked at my calendar and saw that the following day, November 6th, is the last session for my book proposal class. Logically, I knew I could try and put off my...

Crunch mode. I'm in it. BIG time. A few ginormous projects, more work than I have time to tackle, and that nagging sense that my passion project is taking a back seat while I'm focusing on meeting my other deadlines is challenging for this creative multitasker. But...

Okay, I'll come clean. The past few weeks I've been in what I'm lovingly referring to as a "Fall funk," which means I've been feeling more meh than I would like. Generally speaking, I'm cool with feeling less than my positive, cheerful self. I know that no emotion is...

Last week I held a book event for my running book Run for Your Life at a local coffee shop, where I gave a talk about developing a love of running. I've been running for more than twenty (!) years now, and it's been a huge part of my emotional, spiritual, and physical...

"Everything's changing, and that's okay." That's a quote from Martha Beck's book Finding Your Own North Star. She's talking about how even when things are great, life is humming along, we're in our sweet spot with our work or our family or our health, change can...

This week I've been thinking about how grateful I am for my people. I don't mean "my people" in a business sense or being part of a like-minded "tribe" (although those people are important, too). I mean people people. The people who truly know you inside and out and...

In the song La Vie Boheme from my favorite musical Rent, Mark sings, "The opposite of war isn't peace...it's creation!" I love the line, but I know that for many people, the act of creation puts them at war with themselves, or at least their inner critic. Whether...

A few weeks ago in my blog post The Perks of New Adventures, I wrote about running the endurance Ragnar Relay and what I got out of it -- mind, body, and soul. But there's a very important perk I forgot to mention in that post -- namely, the powerful role having that...

I've worked with a handful of memoirists over the past several years, and I'm always blown away by their ability to write candidly and honestly about their lives...even (or especially) about moments that may have been less than impressive. And while I've yet to tackle...

Because of the kind of work I do, there seems to be this continuous ebb and flow of projects big and small, and along with them, uneven spurts of creativity, crunch time, and completion. And without fail, there’s what happens after a project has ended, which looks...

This past weekend, I joined 11 other women to participate in a Ragnar Relay -- an overnight race featuring teams of 6-12 runners logging 200 miles combined. We divided into two vans of six, and we each took on three legs on this round-the-clock relay. We stole cat...

This morning, my son popped into my bedroom shortly after he woke up for a morning snuggle. Typically, he will spend these morning cuddles talking incessantly about what level he's on in his video game or what happened to a character he's reading about or how his...