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The shadow PROVES the sunshine!

Have you ever …stopped to consider your own shadow? Always dark, like a black ink spill that takes on a distorted shape — sometimes stretched tall and unnaturally thin in structure or exceptionally wide and oblong — often giving the impression that the object of the shadow is much grander than it really is or…

You’ve Schooled Me!

Who ME? You ask. Yes. Yes – YOU! Over the last 25 years I have sat at my proverbial desk, holding my mental notebook in hand and jotting down notes in my mind. And you, my friend, have totally SCHOOLED ME! ———- REWIND First let me back up a bit. I am an educator by…

“Chameleon-ing”

It was the 1970’s. Everyone was doing it. All my friends had that Dorothy Hammill look — even the guys. It was a bowl haircut and it was COOL! Of course, it was only cool and it only looked good on certain people with a certain kind of hair. The kind of hair that was…

Her Name is Alicia

I don’t know Alicia … personally. Yet, she almost feels like family. I hear her voice in my head. Alicia is the product specialist at Hardy Nutritionals – the micronutrient company that provides the probiotics and daily essential supplementation that are KEY to bolstering cells and promoting health to the gut microbiome and subsequently increasing…

A Swift Kick to the O’s

It was a beautiful scarf … silky, multi-colored. And she wore it well. Barb entered my training studio on that blustery day in early September when the weather in Colorado begins its schizophrenic frenzy. The tails of her head scarf swirled in the breeze as she walked in the door – a questioning look…

Which “I” do I ?

Overwhelmed. Yep. That’s me right now. So many changes – happening all at once. Some good, some not so good, some neutral. Let’s see, perhaps I should list them. Oh, not for your benefit, but for mine so that I can see a little snapshot of what I am attempting to navigate: I am now…

Welcome to the Jungle

She plopped down right beside me. “I know you!”, she said, smiling. “You’re Michele.” I’m racking my brain. Let’s see … I’m in Creede, Colorado, a teeny, tiny little town I’ve never visited, sitting in a restaurant I didn’t know existed. Now – mind you – I’ve been in some very “off the beaten path”…

Bypassing -vs- Passing By

Ever wonder how some people seem to have off-the-charts discipline in their lives — while others just can’t seem to pull it together if it killed them? Maybe you are one of the Discipline Kings or Queens out there … leading the way, onward and upward! Or, maybe you sit in a totally different camp. …

The Power of SHE!

I’ve never truly considered myself a “toughy” … having that “bad to the bone”, “you can’t touch this” kinda attitude that makes itself known by walking in front of me into a room. Seems to me that true toughies, or rather, the aura of true toughies, makes grand entrances and exits in life. I can…