The Inside Story

Welcome to the Inside Story where I reflect on what draws my interest and sends my pen flying across the page. I hope you’ll find that my writing and reflections stir meaningful insights in you. It’s my deep desire that we all wake up more to life and take a loving look inside.

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    When Is a problem not a problem?
    So when is a big problem not a problem? Have you ever noticed how sometimes everything looks like a problem and sometimes little to nothing does? Some mornings I get on the highway in rush hour traffic (or at...
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    Stop Trying. Start Creating.
    Be honest. Are you trying more than you’re creating? And do you need to know the end of something before you begin? Let’s see... Maybe you’re fine with going to a movie and sitting through to the end. Most people are. Maybe you...
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    Trees in Summer. Do they speak to you, too?
    Full of promise, this one called to me. It spoke of quiet contemplation, novel writing, plein air painting, and sorting old love letters not yet lost to the wash of time. Remembrance. A faded striped canvas slung over sturdy pine...
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    Do You Know Where You're Pivoting From?
    Do you know where you're pivoting from? It seems everywhere I turn now I see the word pivot. It's like the “Red Car Syndrome.” You notice one on the highway and the next thing you know you see them everywhere....
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    There's No Procrastination - Ever!
    I was sitting in my car and looking in my rearview mirror just a bit ago and thinking of a client who’d said to me how much she liked a previous month’s blog post where I’d said that in this...
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    Why the measuring stick of expectation doesn't work
    As a creative coach and consultant I’ve noticed how often people struggle and suffer in the gap between where they are and where they think they should be. Life lived versus life expected. Countless times I’ve seen clients take huge strides...
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    Metaphor in a Basket
    Years ago I was working for a business partnership of sales and marketing gurus in NYC. I was the design and product development part of a working trio. They were a good cop/bad cop duo, and often I was caught...
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    What Questions Are You Asking Yourself This Year?
    Where are you turning your attention in this year? What questions are you asking yourself? What will you notice that will lead you in fresh new directions with new possibilities? The first month of the new year and mid-winter, at...
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    Red Right Returning, Coming Home
    Last summer, having spent a lovely weekend on Nantucket Island, we hopped the evening car and truck ferry back to Hyannis. The day had been resplendent with high clouds and brilliant blue sky and our home coming journey commenced with...
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    Discovering Salvador Dali
    I discovered Salvador Dali one morning recently. I’d read that morning about his illustrations for Alice in Wonderland and was startled to see something entirely new to me. The Surrealists had been a blip on my art history screen but Dali...
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    Have Your Deepest Desires Become Persuasive Enough?
    As we hurtle through space towards the solstice and the night sky dominates the Northern Hemisphere, this mysterious and rhythmically alive dream reality titled Fish Magic, painted by Paul Klee in 1925, welcomes this period of deepening to a kingdom...
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    Chloe. She was much loved, but not always.
    Chloe left this world and our lives in February. She was much loved, although not always. In January of 1998 we left New York City, Brooklyn Heights to be exact, to reinvent ourselves in Providence, Rhode Island, buying an 1806 historic...
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    What I'm Here For
    As a shoe designer for many years with an eponymous collection made in Italy, my shoes were described as “little works of art” so many times that it seemed scripted by some unseen hand. I knew that there was something...
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    HAWK in My Hood
    Looking out the window of my kitchen this morning I was astonished to see a few delicate white feathers drifting from above. By the time I pointed out what I’d seen to my husband, they had vanished in a mystery....
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    The Orange COAT - A funny thing happened on the...
    A funny thing happened on the way to the coffee shop. Heading out the door to have coffee with a potential client whom I hadn’t yet met, I checked my phone and noticed he had texted me. “I’m wearing a blue shirt”...
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    Stressed Out? Frazzled? Future Looking Dim?
    Life got you tied up in knots, stressed out, frazzled? Future looking dim? Dreams on hold? Hours spent in worry, frustration and upset are the modern version of the human condition. But must it be? How would it be to have those hours...
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