Hi Reader! I spent last week on a family road trip from Denver to Santa Fe. I went with my sister, her husband and their kids, my parents, and my daughter, Kiara. Sunset in Mt. Princeton Hot Springs, our first stop on our trip There are so many layers to a family trip. There's what you're doing - swimming in the hot springs, talking to Native artisans about their wares, learning about Georgia O'Keefe. Trying to break up a fight between cousins. Crowding into the back of a car after a morning...
11 days ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! Over the weekend, my daughter Kiara took a swimming lesson for the first time in a year and a half. The last time she took lessons, she jumped into the pool, got water up her nose, and decided she never wanted to put her head in the water again. Her new teacher, Yana, patiently showed Kiara how to glide through the water without putting her head in. After the lesson, she practiced her glide again and again. Suddenly, she slipped and her face went under the water. She came up with a...
5 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! As you may or may not know, I’m a coach who uses tarot and astrology to help you work with your true nature so that you can find a path forward when things are hard, make your creative ideas come to life, and do things your way…even when it seems like everyone else is doing it differently. But…how do coaching, tarot and astrology help you do those things, exactly? Well, that’s what I hope to explore and unpack over the next year. I am going to be writing emails about each of the...
6 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader! Lately I've been pulled in a LOT of different directions. There's the knowledge that my coaching certification is almost over and the deep desire to get my work out to more clients. There's the craving for sugar...holiday cookies, chocolate gelt (aka coins), pastries, candies from my daughter's Halloween stash...all the things. (While also really not wanting to gain back the 35 lbs I lost this year.) There's the pull to lay on the couch under an electric blanket and watch Stranger...
6 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! How is your December going? Mine has been full of electric blankets, hot cups of tea, snow…and sun. After winter finally arrived last week, we are back to 60 degree weather this week. My 7 year old daughter actually wore shorts today. That's Denver for you. And that's kind of how life goes, too. You think something has finally started. Your new business, your dating life, your new way of looking at the world. And then…you realize that you're scared shitless of your newfound...
7 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! A caterpillar sheds its skin many times throughout its life, building more of what it needs to become a butterfly with each molt. When it finally creates its chrysalis, it already has butterfly parts growing inside. Now it spends a few days to a few years dissolving the remaining caterpillar parts and completing its transformation into a totally new form. As humans, we enter the pupa state when we're in the middle of a big transition and/or big grief. When parts of us are...
11 months ago • 4 min read
Hi Reader, You may not know this about me, but I've been doing the self-employed thing for the past 14 years. I’ve been a private tutor, website designer, freelance writer, writing coach, instructional designer—and now I’m a coach/tarot reader/astrologer hybrid. (Can you tell I'm a Gemini? 😉) I’ve taken more courses and joined more memberships than I can count. And here’s something I’ve started to see clearly: A lot of them are built around this idea that someone out there has finally cracked...
12 months ago • 2 min read
Hi Reader! Are you the kind of person who falls into a book and forgets the real world exists? I LOVE epic fantasy series. You know, the ones that you can read for months, and when they end you feel like a bunch of close friends just moved away? Right now, I'm reading a series called Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman. I almost skipped it—because, honestly, Dungeon Crawler Carl? That sounds like a bad mobile game from 2007. But I'm obsessed. The series starts when Carl's ex-girlfriend's...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read
Hi Reader! It's been awhile since I've written, and I feel rusty, like a neck that's been angled wrong on a pillow all night. Since my last email went out to you, I went to Seattle for an astrology convention (amazing!), did readings at a huge two day fair in Denver (great, but also really stressful...especially the GIGANTIC storm that almost blew my tent away at the end), celebrated my 43rd birthday (chill and fun), and got my two of my wisdom teeth out (painful, but not as bad as I thought...
about 1 year ago • 3 min read