The Sophia Project

I found Cyndi’s 40 Things I’ve Learned in 40 Years through my friend Elizabeth H. Cottrell of Heartspoken. Elizabeth did a guest post for Cyndi’s The Sophia Project, so I started to go through Cyndi’s blog posts. I was so impressed with Cyndi’s blog! I wrote to her, we started chatting, and now here we [...]

Summer. Summer.  It’s here. The sultry, humid air coaxes me to sit very, very still. My mind slows way down and my thoughts attach here, to a cricket’s song, or there, to a butterfly flickering past. Sweat rolls down my temple and I can’t be bothered to wipe it away. Raising a hand takes too [...]

I experienced a “lightbulb moment” over the weekend.  I love these moments, when I have a sudden rush of clarity about an issue I’ve been wrestling with. When the answer I’ve been seeking simply arrives. On Saturday I had a big conversation with a friend about the meaning of life. In the middle of it, [...]

This week I returned to my alma mater, Guilford College, and spoke to group of soon-to-be-graduating seniors about my career. I graduated 18 years ago, but I remember vividly the feeling being 22 and suddenly done with school. For the first time in my life, there were no adults placing expectations on me, and I [...]

Media is insidious. I’m not the first to say it. I won’t be the last. I heard recently on a radio program that the quickest way into a woman’s wallet is to make her feel dissatisfied with herself. Television shows and product manufacturers pay marketers lots and lots of money to create in us a [...]

I talk to myself a lot. Like, a lot. As a mental health professional, I believe talking to oneself is a sign of creative brilliance. Call me biased, but that’s my opinion and I’m sticking to it. Lately I’ve been blessed with some financial challenges. I say “blessed” because I believe these challenges are entering [...]

In less than two months I turn 40 years old. Like most people, I’m caught off guard by my own aging process. In my heart I carry all the people I’ve been before: the child, the gawky adolescent, the anxious young woman starting her career and falling in love for the first time. I’m all [...]