Category Archives: Blog

Dear Friends, I am so excited and proud to share that we are finally launching our online course, Goals For a New Life: Setting and Managing Goals for Spellers! This has been a long process, but now it is ready. This is hopefully just the beginning of many future courses that we will develop. IContinue reading “Announcement”

Dear Friends, I had the best day last week. Tara and I went to our favorite trail, on Mount Laguna. We only brought our younger dog, Hana, because the older dog is too frail to hike anymore. So that was a bit sad, but mom stayed home with the old fart. That day was theContinue reading “In the clouds”

Dear Friends, I am so in an interesting place right now. I am working to more fully understand it. It has been going on for months now. I am processing my grief and trauma more deeply. It is a scary process. I am more able to face it with sadness rather than immediately getting caughtContinue reading “I am processing”

Dear Friends, All the news is roiling, and I won’t add any hot takes for now. I prefer my takes cooled. So I just want to share how my day was. It was a great one thanks to my family and friends. I want to celebrate it, and also show how such days are possibleContinue reading “A Full Day”

Dear Friends, I am not going to try to analyze or advocate. I have plenty of thoughts about recent and ongoing events and movements. But I am not using this space for sharing those. I just want to remind you all that the world will not be saved through rabid factionalism. It will not beContinue reading “Living Today”

Dear Friends, Time for a lighter post. Thank you for having such care with my heavier feelings. Tara and I went snorkeling this morning. I was pretty low energy, but very calm and regulated. The water was a little cool, but still comfortable. The waves were small and the wind hadn’t picked up yet. ItContinue reading “Ocean for my tired self”

Dear Friends, I am overwhelmed by your responses to my latest post. Thank you for your thoughtful replies. I wanted to offer a lighter post, but this is another sort of heavy one. Our latest All Our Brave Hearts episode is on similar topics, and it was recorded a couple of weeks ago. I wasContinue reading “Some questions for brave hearts”

Dear Friends, I am warning that this might be a difficult post to read. I try to be sensitive and careful in how my public posts might affect you. However, I believe that this is important to share. I am not the first to express such views. And I am not claiming to speak forContinue reading “A tough truth”

Dear Friends, I had a bad case of the blues last weekend. I was so low and down. It was so suffocating. This was similar to how I felt on my birthday. The sadness had a heaviness that sat on my brain. It was so painful. I have had depression before. I have experienced grief.Continue reading “Down and Up”

Dear Friends, Wow! I just had one of my favorite ocean outings! This morning, I swam/snorkeled the farthest I ever have from shore. I am so proud! We swam from La Jolla Cove to the kelp forest area just by a buoy marking a quarter mile from shore. It was a gorgeous day with awesomeContinue reading “More Ocean Time”