The Sophia Project

March Madness. It has arrived.  I am a quiet but passionate college basketball fan. Last weekend the ACC Men’s Basketball tournament played itself out in Greensboro, NC, just a hop, skip, and a jump away from the desk where I sit right now, typing these words. Several years ago I attended the tourney in person, [...]

Today, I screwed up. I mean really screwed up. About nine months ago, I agreed to teach a full-day workshop for a local agency. I marked the date on my calendar, March 8, 2013, signed the contract, and went about the business of my life. Two weeks ago, I started prepping for the workshop. I [...]

I hate being lost.  The quickest way for me to have a full-on emotional meltdown is to find myself lost in a strange city, or even worse, in my own hometown on the way to an appointment. I become the embodiment of irrational road-rage, pounding the steering wheel and yelling at hapless drivers to get [...]

This blog post is one of the hardest I’ve written. I feel anxiety right now, even fear as I write. I’m afraid of being wrong, of offending, of being criticized. But these words have been bouncing around in my brain for a couple of weeks now, and they won’t let me alone until I let [...]

Today’s guest post is courtesy shamanic practitioner and writer Sandy Phocas. Sandy is based in Winston-Salem, NC, and also works in Virginia, Maryland, and South Carolina. She also serves as an instructor at the prestigious Omega Institute in New York. If you knew your potential, you would laugh at your efforts to fit into smaller [...]

When I feel stuck in my writing, I reach for Natalie Goldberg’s “Old Friend From Far Away” a series of prompts for memoir writing. Today’s prompt is all about hellos and goodbyes.  It’s a small miracle to me that I never know how significant a new person might be in my life when I first [...]

I’m working with Gwen Bell in her “Align Your Website” program. The purpose: at the end of three months, I’ll have a website and digital presence that aligns closely with who I am as a person and my mission in the world. Last week’s task was to write a mission statement. Lovely Gwen offered several [...]