Mommess
Believing, Knowing and a Timeless Smile
The power of acknowledgement & questions for deep, time-released understanding. Sitting outside at a small red cafe table on Laguardia Place in New York City, Jim Smith looked…
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Stewarding the Internet
Women are used to this in terms of motherhood, being unseen and unpaid: just “expected.” Moms do love and care and survival of the species. It’s a default…
Creativity
Becoming a writer
Play on words, Play with words: what do you want to know about you? My first poem, which I can recite by heart, woke me up. I wrote…
Culture
Shame & taking responsibility
And a healing plan for this type of overwhelm below. I was talking with family the other day, and heard myself saying, “I feel ashamed all the time.”…
Mommess
Flow in the trenches
I used to work at a restaurant run by, as the owner put it, “a team of leaders.” I never knew what she meant until the rains came.…
Creativity
Process sans plans & perfection
[originally published in weekly newsletter] I feel at a loss of what to say here today, but my hands love to write, and I made a commitment to…
Coaching
The toilet in my back yard
And the knowing that comes from an ‘in house’ metaphor. Last month, we cashed in some Apple shares to have a friend’s brother fix our bathroom. The floor…
Creativity
Feedback is free
On a lovely 15 mile (!) hike with a good friend yesterday I learned about feedback. Specifically, that some folks seek it and some don’t. I do. I…
Creativity
Dream On Drum Kit: What’s Your Rhythm?
Ever feel like you need a new timing or approach? One that hasn’t been done quite yet? So, the other night I have this dream that I’m back…
Humor
Is AI, or my butt, running my mobile phone?
Ever call someone you didn’t intend to by “butt dial?” I keep my phone in my pocket, and given how tight my jeans have become, watching the operations…
Mommess
Hey Ram
Today in the woods, I saw Ram Dass1. Well not really. And yet, in another way, precisely. The older man had just a little grey hair and sparkly…
Creativity
Validation & Credentialing ~ Terms of Endearment for oddly-credentialed kin
I’ve been pondering the value of credentialing and validation for someone to get recognized for mastery in action, but have personally not chased either; preferring instead to practice…