Six Word Memoirs On Intimate Relationships

by Judith Rich on March 10, 2010

Apparently, many of you were also bitten by the “Six Word Memoir bug” , as I received many responses to my invitation to write a memoir telling the story of your intimate relationships.  I’ll be posting them here over the next couple of days, so please stay tuned and check back to read yours.
Meanwhile, one [...]

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Can You Tell Your Life Story In 6 Words?

by Judith Rich on March 3, 2010

“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
Ernest Hemingway
If you think Twitter is abbreviated communication, how about this one: can you tell your entire life story in exactly six words?
Welcome to the Six Word Memoir Project, birthed from the brain and heart of Larry Smith, founder and editor of SMITH magazine, an online repository for people’s personal [...]

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For The Love Of A Dog

February 24, 2010

Meet Nikita, the newest addition to the family.  She’s a rescue dog, part Vischla, part Pitt, and part mystery.  She was adopted by my daughter and her husband at 8 weeks, about the time of this photo.  Nikita is now 8 months old and considerably larger than this picture, but she’s still true to her [...]

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Step Aside, Susan Boyle

February 23, 2010

Check out this 15 year old  phenom, Mark Vincent, on Australia’s Got Talent.
Don’t you just wonder how many more extraordinarily talented young people there are like Mark, just warming up in the wings?   For all we lament about the deterioration of today’s youth, consider that inside each of them and even us oldsters, is [...]

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Tiger, Tiger Still In The Woods

February 19, 2010

“What it takes to be a Tiger…. seeing things simply, seeing things fully.”
Watching Tiger Woods’ public apology today was painful.  Like the ad says, too bad he lost his ability to see.
I got the feeling he felt like a schoolboy who’d been marched to the principal’s office and forced to write “I was wrong and [...]

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A Rose In The Wilderness

February 18, 2010

I wander my wilderness with faith and suddenly it blossoms as the rose.
Florence Scovel Shinn
My mother  lived to the ripe old age of 91, but maintained to her death that a woman should never reveal her age.   I always thought it odd that one should not honor the years they’ve been on the planet [...]

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Would You Rather Stay Safe Or Risk Being Free?

February 16, 2010

“Leap and the net will appear”
Julia Cameron, The Artist’s Way
It’s now mid-February. The decade is nearly two months old. Have your New Year’s resolutions gone the way of the trash heap yet? Have you’ve settled into your old patterns and back to business as usual?
Perhaps this time you thought you could sneak by the [...]

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What’s Love Got To Do With It?

February 10, 2010

Ask me a question. Any question. Whatever the question, the answer is Love.
Forgive me if that sounds simplistic, or even downright New Agey. Twenty years ago, if you’d asked me to say the answer to everything is love I’d have smiled semi-politely and rolled my eyes vigorously in both directions. My life’s journey had taught [...]

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Six Keys To Manifesting Your Potential

February 3, 2010

Last week, we began a discussion called Who’s Minding Your Potential? You can read that article here. I borrowed an idea from my friend, James Lynch, that you can best mind your own potential by becoming your own Chief Potential Officer. This week, we’re going to investigate how to best utilize this important asset. Now that your CPO [...]

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Who’s Minding Your Potential?

January 25, 2010

There is no passion to be found playing small~
in settling for a life that is less
than the one you are capable of living.
Nelson Mandela
Fellow HuffPost blogger, author and life coach, James Lynch, carries the title of Chief Potential Officer of his company, Do It Yourself Life Coaching. Knowing James, I feel quite [...]

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