Trauma Recovery Coach, Speaker, Consultant & Author
I woke up this morning and realized it’s February 29th. Somewhere in the back of my mind, I knew this was a Leap Year, but I was still a bit surprised to notice that unexpected date on my calendar. Should … Read more…
Many years ago, journalist Gail Sheehy wrote the book Passages, which identified predictable changes of direction people experience at certain ages of their lives. As I’ve passed through them, I’ve experienced many of these passages. Since I turned sixty, I … Read more…
Today is Groundhog Day, and apparently Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning, portending six more weeks of winter. I don’t feel qualified to comment on that, since it has been 80 degrees this week here in Austin. However, I … Read more…
Today is World AIDS Day, commemorating the 34 million living people with AIDS, and the nearly 30 million who have died. The numbers are so big they’re hard to take in. But for me, as for so very many others … Read more…
Today is Thanksgiving, and before I close my computer and focus on the family gathering, I wanted to thank you all, my wonderful readers. This is the day we Americans make a special point of being grateful, and I certainly … Read more…
The handsome young man on the left, posing for his proud parents behind the camera, is my dad, Leon Lambert. The family story is that he lied about his age and enlisted in the Navy at seventeen. But as I … Read more…
Today our old doggie died. Blackie was the last one of the pets that grew up with my “second family” of children, a golden retriever/black lab cross. As the final animal survivor of that era, he outlived Mia, a tiny … Read more…