Ah, summer is here. For someone who works out of their home and has children, that means something much different than, say, the college student ecstatic for tanning at the beach. This difference was very obvious the first day of “vacation.”  I felt like a ping pong ball.
While conducting telephone interviews for a story I […]

Last week I found myself trying to locate my morning energy when I awoke. I didn’t feel refreshed for several days in a row. Then I recognized the feeling- it was adrenaline abuse. I looked back over the last few days and knew I’d kept “pushing” throughout each day.
I had been operating from a belief […]

Books for Women’s Entrepreneurial Spirits
The fact that essayist Anne Lamott wrote the forward to Geneen Roth’s latest book was a selling point for me. But in truth, I needed no ‘sales job’ because I also love Geneen Roth’s books. Start with the title, “When you Eat at the Refigerator, Pull Up a Chair” .
Already  the humor is […]

Books for Women’s Entrepreneurial Spirits 
It’s all in your head,” some people say. Well, in the case of writers, all too often it is. We often disconnect our heads from the rest of our bodies – not only when we write, but in other parts of our lives as well.
One of the ways I try to […]

This spring took an unstable turn recently. Constant changes rocked me one way, then the next- and I’m not just talking about the weather. It’s true that springtime in Texas means you wake to days that seem like the meteorological equivalent to schizophrenia, requiring sweaters one minute and sunscreen and shorts the next, but I […]