Ordinary Life, Extraordinary Living

Life Lessons

Update on Sacred Work

I have been surprised and touched by the responses from my email to solicit questions around Consciously Being and Consciously Leaving.  Here are some highlights: Close to 70 people contacted me. Over 25% of the responses came from people I...

Sacred Work

After a few weeks of not blogging, I'm feeling the urge to write again. I've been working on a special project for the last few weeks. I emailed the following to the distribution list for my monthly ezine (if you...

Blog Makeover

You may have noticed a new look and feel to this blog. I've undergone a "blog makeover' or more accurately, evolved to Version 2 of my blog.  My thanks to Sandra De Freitas, known as The Coach's Tech Coach, for...

More Questions Than Answers

I recently finished the novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven. I had seen it in a bookshop in Moab and then found it at my local library when I got home. It’s a quick read. I started it...

Milestones

Okay, one last post for tonight before I call it quits. Last week, I wrote my 100th blog post. One hundred inklings, ideas, inspirations explored and documented in black and white. It's been a quick road to get here, because...

Finding the Easy Way Out

This morning, I biked for the first time this year with a friend. We like to go on long bike rides on Sunday mornings, while the church goers are still at church and the college kids are still sleeping in...

Beyond the Paved Road

I recently returned from a trip to Moab, Utah with my husband and kids. We hiked at Canyonlands National Park and Arches National Park, both a short drive from Moab. If you’ve never been in this part of the country...

Believing Eyes

I received this comment from Richard Smith on the featured article about my first mentor, Mrs. Miller: “I recall my first mentor, a grade school basketball coach, Larry Kelly. I was in the sixth grade and was walking down the...

What It Means to Be An Entrepreneur

I read this on Seth Godin's blog about what it means to be an entrepreneur: "Most companies are not appropriate sites for VC money. That's because they're freelance ventures, not entrepreneurial ones. A freelance venture is one where you work...

Awestruck

Today, I posted a new featured article on my website, about my first mentor, who I met when I was ten years old. I didn't realize the impact that Mrs. Miller had on me until I started writing the article,...