My end of year reflection started early, on December 13 when I went in for long overdue foot surgery. My doctor had advised that I plan it when I could find at least two full weeks to keep it iced and elevated. That’s not an easy thing to find when one keeps the pace that […]
How One Small Acknowledgment Showed Me The Guru Within
Last week I learned about Guru Purnima. As it was explained to me it is a very auspicious day in Indian culture and occurs each year on the full moon in the Hindu month of Ashadha (June-July). Gurus are the teachers in our lives. They are our sources of learning, wisdom and inspiration. Indians believe […]
How To Stay Positive When The World Seems So Scary
I’m a generally positive person. I’m the person people call when they’ve lost their job, broken up with their guy or generally need a positive perspective to an otherwise challenging situation. I’m the one who chose JOY as her word for 2017. I can see humor in almost everything. It’s a trait I inherited from my […]
Why I’m Choosing Joy As My Word For 2017 When The World Is Such A Mess
My father loved to take us on picnics when we were kids. He would pile us into the car with a cooler full of hot dogs and hamburgers, a portable charcoal grill, and a transitor radio and drive east of Queens to Sunken Meadow Park for a barbecue. For my mother it was work but […]
What Learning To Dance Taught Me About Life
The day my parents agreed to sign me up for ballet and tap lessons I was ecstatic. I had read books about dancers and watched them on television, dreaming of what it would be like to put on a leotard and float across the floor. Now I was going to learn how to be […]
What I Learned About Passion After Following Mine
This month will mark eight years since I opted to follow my passion instead of taking the safer route towards a more predictable and steadier paycheck. It’s been a journey filled with joy and tears, successes and failures, moments of certainty that I’m on the right path and others of being down on my knees, […]
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