Can you teach an old dog new tricks?

I've been thinking a lot lately about change.  I'm not talking about the sixty-seven cents that I have in my wallet, but the kind of change that transforms someone.  The kind of long-lasting, sustained change that reverses our self narrative, that alters our perspectives and improves our lives.  I'm talking about heart-change.  Do we humans have the …

Telling my story

One of the really great things about Arizona is that in just a few hours you can go from this: To this: That's what we did this weekend.  We spent the last two days up near Payson, Arizona attending the annual Payson Round-up.  It's a huge camping trip that is organized by a local Payson …

Healthy Habit #8 – A Month of Breaks (and an update on gratitude)

At the beginning of the year, I decided to try to add healthy habits instead of making resolutions, hoping that at least a few of them will stick and I will end the year healthier than I was at the beginning.  So far, there have been a few that have stuck, and those have made …

Um, yeah…so that happened.

  So today I walked down the hall at work (I work at a college) with my skirt tucked into my underwear.  I was meeting my husband, who is a teacher there, in the student break room for lunch when I made a quick pit-stop to tinkle.  I guess I was in such a hurry to …

A Month of Gratitude – Update

For the month of July my Healthy Habit was gratitude.  Each day I focused on the things in my life for which I am grateful, and I did my best to post about it everyday, but I missed a few here and there.  This habit has been, by far, my favorite and my most successful.  After …