New York Perspective

New York Perspective

As we approached the Brooklyn Bridge we encountered a huge billboard… sort of warning and welcome wrapped into one. It’s not the kind of sign you’d see in Wyoming, or even in Boston. But then again the volume of people in New York is truly mind and body boggling, and...
Grief & Legacy

Grief & Legacy

Late last month while visiting my son in California we toured The Winchester Mystery House. Its’ one hundred and sixty rooms were built by carpenters pounding hammers twenty-four hours a day for thirty-eight years. Which leads to the obvious questions: Why? What would...
Music, Art and Restructured Families

Music, Art and Restructured Families

Ever since I was a young girl one of my favorite places to visit has been the impressionist gallery at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.  I was always particularly mesmerized by Monet’s Water Lilies series, and more than once I can remember sitting before one of his...
The Empathy Effect and a Couch in Salt Lake City

The Empathy Effect and a Couch in Salt Lake City

With three children pretty much grown, a winter ski gathering in Salt Lake City seemed like a great way to spend some good time together, and it was. However as is inevitable our pretty much grown children took remnants of their childhood relationships along for the...
Can Good Design Inspire Creative Solutions?

Can Good Design Inspire Creative Solutions?

Can good design inspire creative solutions? Can imagery change our thinking? And what possibly could Marcus Aurelius have to do with any of it? When I first saw this inspired holiday card I was struck not only by the sleek and clever design reversal, but also by how...
The Pursuit of Happyness

The Pursuit of Happyness

Spiritual genetics is a term I’d never heard before hearing Chris Gardner (perhaps best known as the lead character played by Will Smith in The Pursuit of Happyness) describe it during a lecture I was lucky enough to attend.  He talked about how he’d crafted the...

Art and Its Impact

 “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Maya Angelou Like many things in life, how they manifest matters as much as that they manifest. This is never truer than...
Parenting In Three Genders

Parenting In Three Genders

Recently I read Jennifer Finney Boylan’s book Stuck In The Middle With You, which recounts her parenting as a father, then while in transition, and finally after her transition, as a mother. The fluidity of gender, and the social constructs society assigns to men and...

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