Joanne Tombrakos

Hexed

Some days all the noise hexes me. The tweeting, the Facebook posts, the YouTube videos. All that self promotion that is at once a benefit to leveling the playing field in this new interconnected on line world we live in and an annoyance. What is real and what is made up? Some days I get hexed. […]

Hard

Some days it’s all so hard. Fill in the blank for “it”. Your job is difficult.Writing the book is taxing.Starting your business is grueling.Trying to get the new funding is onerous.That Pilate’s stretch is arduous.Your relationship is wearing you thin. Some days it’s all so tiring that I for one just want to go lay […]

Tales of Reinvention: Joanne Lekas

Joanne Lekas is a certified professional dog trainer and the owner of Happy Dog Behavior Training. She offers private, in home training sessions as well as group classes throughout the Greater Boston and Cape Cod area. On January 28 she, in partnership with Alan Grazioso launched Puppy Coach 101 a quick and easy video based dog […]

Choosing Happy

“I discovered I always have choices and sometimes it’s only a choice of attitude.” Judith M. Knowlton via Gloria Feldt I received an email this morning from an old friend. He remarked that I seemed to be doing quite well and reflected a happy person’s views in this “sea of negativity.” I remember him from […]

Groundhog Day And Desire#32

In the depths of this tundra like Northeast winter where one snow filled day is starting to run into another, I anxiously awaited news from Punxsutawney yesterday. I don’t care if it is myth and without scientific finding. I, like many others, wanted Phil to tell us spring will be early this year. I wanted […]

Like A Book I Once Read

Once upon a time I taught in the public schools. That experience sits so far in the recesses of my brain that it often seems as an old friend used to remark on his first marriage, more like a book I read as opposed to a life I lived. But it is not a made […]