Trauma Recovery Coach, Speaker, Consultant & Author
We left Austin 6 days ago for a month in the Pacific Northwest. Landed in Portland, rented a car, and spent 3 wonderful days with granddaughter Valentina. We had planned more visits with friends, hiking in Olympic National Park, much-longed-for-time … Read more…
Some of our extended family are going through a crisis. There are children involved, now in foster care. Their story is not mine to tell, so I’ll leave it at that. I am impacted by the story, however, and reading … Read more…
Ripe red pomegranates piled high in the produce section of my neighborhood grocery -I’ve been buying one every day. Junot Diaz – I’m laughing and crying my way through The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, which I somehow missed … Read more…
This is a picture of two of my very silly children, clowning with mimes in the park in downtown Queretaro, Mexico. We spent a summer in Mexico, first studying Spanish in San Miguel de Allende, then traveling to other cities. … Read more…
As I write this post, I am sitting in Nashville’s Central Library, in front of a curved window overlooking a beautiful garden. Autumn has come to Tennessee, and the trees are dressed in orange and red. The Cumberland River winds … Read more…
Very early this 4th of July morning, I was walking in one of my favorite parks, around a small lake. Crossing a footbridge, I looked down and saw a mother duck leading her babies through open water into a stand … Read more…