January 2, 2024

Take Inventory: We Accomplish More Than We Think!

I worked with a business coach and four other women lawyers for a period, and we were encouraged to list 20 accomplishments for the year. It […]
February 21, 2022

Your Child’s Merry Christmas Story (even if you are divorcing)

If you are divorced, or facing separation and divorce this season, I want to suggest that YOU are writing your children's Christmas Story this year. You are helping to shape their memories and impressions of the year they were, 6 or 9 or 12. What will your children's story be?
November 26, 2019

Resiliency–developing the tools to “bounce back” with thanks to the Krasl Art Center.

Resiliency or the ability to bounce back can help you survive the "most wonderful time of the year" when the holidays occur during your divorce or custody hearings.
January 9, 2018

Broken and More Beautiful in the New Year

Broken and More Beautiful in the New Year The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong in the broken places. – Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell […]
December 22, 2017

God bless us. Everyone. This one and only Christmas.

I’m in Idaho with family. Mother. Sister. Stepson, his wife and seven–you read it right–seven children! Uneventful travel, last minute gift orders on Amazon and Dutch […]
October 31, 2017

Be Afraid. Fail Spectacularly

It’s Halloween. We should be well and truly afraid today–of the dark and witches and sugar overload! On a transatlantic flight last month, I watched the […]