Leaning into the Lemons

Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory; dud" I knew I shouldn't send the email. I was on vacation, in Italy, and to her credit, my future boss had told me to disconnect. But I'd told her I wasn't going to completely. While I was set to explore the rugged beauty …

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Living Your Passion

Find something that makes you happy and fixate on it. That is the answer to all things. It's the answer to getting everything that you want." -Abraham Hicks What is your why? It's been months since I put that quote in my iPhone "Notebook" application reserved for blog post inspirations; so long, in fact, that …

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A Flutter of Wings

It has been said that something as small as the flutter of a butterfly's wings can ultimately cause a typhoon halfway around the world." -- Chaos Theory 11-2. I'm not sure why, but for some reason, this year seems to have been marked so far by a host of references back to the late nineties …

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Summer Blog Series: Using Your Story to Propel You Forward

Enlightenment is growing all the time. It is not something that happens once and is then complete." -Rhich Nhat Hanh A million steps backwards -- that's what it felt like. I sat in my Chicago hotel room, picking at the room-service Caesar salad. My appetite had all but diminished the past two days, my mind …

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