Behind the Scenes
My husband used to say I was a walking idiosyncrasy — it feels like I am a cosmic pretzel — meaning I can be dead-serious and pragmatic, and full of curiosity and childlike wonder about the world around me.
I love to fly by the seat of my pants… but if I don’t have structure, I fly all over the pl...
It was a beautiful, chilly, Albuquerque morning. I had just gotten up for the day and was sitting on my balcony, enjoying that first glorious sip of morning coffee, slowly becoming aware of the litany of errands my mind had made into a “to do today” itinerary that was starting to stretch into next w...
I was on my way to the airport to pick up Melissa.
I hadn’t seen her since I left Albuquerque, and she was flying in to visit for Christmas. I was living in Fargo, North Dakota at the time, and after a quick stop at my apartment, we were heading straight to Park Rapids to spend time with my family....
7/4/2024
Many people talk about a single moment that changed their life. I don’t have one of those moments—my life has been anything but a neat, straight line. It’s been messy, winding, and full of lessons I didn’t always want to learn, along with secrets I felt I had to keep. As I often say, “I’m ...
5/31/2022
The other day, after a particularly frustrating interaction with several people trying to free themselves from addiction, someone shared a story with me that I’ve heard many times before — but today, I needed the reminder.
It’s called The Starfish Story, and it goes a little like this:
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6/29/2024
My father was a perfectionist. He took meticulous care of his appearance and approached everything he did with precision, whether fixing a broken pipe or managing his business. He was a man of few words, but when he spoke, it was something worth hearing, and always more profound than the...
07/06/2025
“The winds of change whisper in my ear,
‘C’mon,’ they say as they tickle my skin and ignite my senses . . .
‘It’ll be FUN!’”
Every time change shows up, it throws me for a bit of a loop. Not because change itself is bad, but because somewhere along the way I wired “change” to mean “so...
6/5/2022
My life has been one long adventure—complete with heroes and heroines, battles between light and shadow, forgiveness and grace, joy and heartbreak… and some really good stories along the way. When I look back, I can clearly see that I’ve been on a lifelong journey to find my inner light.
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