Blog

Search Suggestions

Jul 23, 2020 Take Out the Trash – Say Goodbye to Garbage-Speak This past week an intersectionality of coincidences took up my bandwidth, providing me with key learnings… What the cuss does that mean? A friend sent me an article on how… Read More
Jul 16, 2020 “When the Flower Blossoms it Sends No Invitation” This past Saturday I was deadheading roses and inadvertently cut a bud, so I placed it in a vase to watch it bloom. Life intervened, and I ended up being… Read More
Jul 9, 2020 The Eyes Have It   As you know, “The ayes have it,” is how a majority rule is announced. This post is about our physical eyes, however—and of the extra work they can do… Read More
Jul 1, 2020 “Let the Beauty You Love Be What You Do” The title of this blog post comes from Rumi, one of my favorite poets. Why am I thinking about this today? Well, my mother-in-law passed away on Monday and this… Read More
Jun 25, 2020 Gratitude = Grease Hello Wow-types, I received lots of feedback on last week’s post. Many of you loved the idea of not having to educate others about how they could be less hideous.… Read More
Jun 18, 2020 Use Your Temper as a Tool This past week, the Director of an organization with which I am involved in a volunteer capacity sent me an email so riddled with condescension and contempt it took my… Read More
Jun 11, 2020 No Need to Step on the Brake—Just Take Your Foot Off the Gas Last summer I was driving with my super cool nephew (that is he, pictured above, flying an F/A—18F Super Hornet) when he remarked, “Why are people so quick to step… Read More
Jun 4, 2020 When We Know Better, We Do Better Like many of you, my heart aches as I watch the news. Like many of you, I believe in the right of our black fellow Americans to do more than… Read More
May 28, 2020 “Wicked” Rehabilitated the Reputation of Witches—I Will Now (Attempt to) Do the Same for Stepmothers When your father announces at the age of 72 that he is remarrying it is natural to think, (among other things) “Well, this could go either way…” Outside my brain,… Read More
May 21, 2020 Assisting Others is Great—but Leave Them Wiggle Room Over the past few weeks I have slowly but surely been teaching my super-patient husband, Keith, how to assist me in various yoga poses. The other day as he was… Read More

✕

How to Wow: Proven strategies for selling your (Brilliant) self in any situation

Order Now