Resilience on our farm is embedded in how we live — offering efficiency, safety, and heart. In this article, you’ll see how we conceive...

Thank you Julie Kleine and Montana Parent Magazine for celebrating local women leaders for International Women’s Day in their latest...

I found when I had told this story here that I had never told it before — not like this.  We find the opening when what needs to be...

The Why of Glasses I missed my glasses. Folly to mourn healing of the cranium, the return of equilibrium in the timing of an eye’s focus,...

“And you would be…?” Good morning, dearests. Would you like to hear the eulogy at your own funeral? I think I just did. I had a rare...

A firefighter told me yesterday that when he started working with me on his resilience he was excited because he thought that he was...

Love is going out to kill a turkey in 20-degree weather so that your wife can tend other things.  And love is still liking the man who is...

When I was asked to speak again this year for the St. Francis-inspired sermon of animals, my first thought was, “What if I said...

Profanity for Children I refrained from swearing near my young children, not precisely for their sakes, but as much in love for the...

With our lives. Aimlessness and loss compound each other. Perhaps you’re lying in bed at night worrying about tomorrow or next...

Teaching is about information and understanding. Coaching, however, is for intuition and implementation. Here’s a 2-minute video if...

luminations noun, plural.  1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity.  See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, work, love,...

luminations noun, plural.  1. Gleams, glimmers, perspectives, clarity.  See also, dawn, morning, simplicity, resilience, love, home.  2....

Dear ones, this morning I, too, am torn, deeply sad and sorry and worried, reaching out to friends to know they’re safe, aware...

Spoken to the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Bozeman for the Blessing of the Animals… I was invited to share today in part because...

The gift of inland islands… Three months ago post-traumatic stress came to walk beside me again, after many years gone. Random panic...

Sometimes I think I have come into this life as one of the pain-bearers — not one who takes all pain onto herself, nor one who takes it...

In the last post, we looked at the resilience Myth #2:  “I’ll evade burnout with careful time management.” So stop and think for a moment...

To give you one more idea around this one, Robert Grudin, who is one of my favorite thinkers, wrote in his book on time, “On this subject...

For a time, I crashed down into a full-on burnout once every ten years: three times in three ways — once through tragedy, once as a...