Since meeting Kathy Ball-Toncic through CTI's Leadership program a few years ago, I've been in awe of her courage and mobility. During that program we did high ropes work (Kathy was far more elegant and courageous than I) among other challenging activities. She'd...
A lot of people talk about wanting to move to Hawaii, but for most of them, it's simply a fantasy. When Kathryn Ryan first expressed that desire, I have to say, I thought she might be just another New Englander seeking to escape the cold and icy winters of our...
I've been a fan of Martha Beck ever since reading Expecting Adam: A True Story of Birth, Rebirth, and Everyday Magic over a decade ago. She's a life coach, author and columnist for O Magazine, whose wisdom and words are inspiring. Her recent column in O's September...
Check if this feels familiar: A company owed me a check for the books they had sold during a speaking engagement. I had anticipated receiving that money a few days after the event. Now it was closer to a few weeks and still no check. My resentment was rising. I had...
I received this email from a client yesterday morning. I hear this sentiment a lot and knew it was worth quoting directly: "I am on my way to Charlotte to the WITHIT conference. Women in the Home Furnishings Industry. I feel a bit guilty going so much this month,...
We as business owners all know that the way to capitalize on our resources is to spend our time doing the tasks we do best and delegating the rest. When I was new and young in my business I did it all: data entry (handwriting names on 3x5 cards), producing the...
Dr. Debbie Danowski, a professor at Sacred Heart University, is a friend of mine and also a former client. We were in a writers group for several years and have stayed connected since. Over a year ago Debbie wanted to work with me on her vision for her dream house....
That's the title atop page 68 in The War of Art, a volume I recently listened to on CD and also own in paperback. The author, Steven Pressfield, likens being an artist to being in the Marine Corps. "The Marine Corps teaches you how to be miserable. This is...
Back-to-back coaching calls with similar themes give me ideas for my blog. Yesterday two of my creative clients reported in with extraordinary success stories. A designer client began apologetically, saying she hadn't completed her fieldwork assignments, but that...
I'm attending the Kushi Institute's Macrobiotic Conference for the next few days in Palisades, NY, and just heard Annemarie Colbin speak. She's the founder of the Natural Gourmet Institute for Health and Culinary Arts, plus author of multiple books on nutrition and...
July 4 is my birthday, and I plan it very carefully. Having been at sleepaway camps for much of my youth, my summertime birthday often got glossed over. So, as an adult, I carefully construct my day to be everything I want it to be. (Note the underlying lesson...
Rounding the bend on my morning walk today, with Paul Simon singing 'Old' on my iPod, I spotted my neighbor Mrs. Young, who will be 100 on October 11, Â arms lifted over her head with pruning shears, struggling to cut down a branch weakened from last night's storm....
My dear friend, Cookie (aka Marisabina Russo) turned the big 6-0 last month. At a gala surprise party organized by her devoted husband Whitney, about that many friends gathered including several Artsy Girls pictured here. To personally celebrate Cookie, I invited...
When I was little, the paper dolls and trading cards I played with were all ballerinas and princesses. It surely looked like everything was perfect in their pristine, prettily-dressed lives. And, given that this was the 50's, there was little else to aspire to. Now...
I've talked about Lucy Hedrick on many occasions, but her re-entry to Connecticut this season prompts another side of Lucy I'd like to share. Enviably, Lucy spends over six months a year as a snowbird in Sarasota, FL, taking her writing and book proposal coaching...
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