That time I did three days of work on the Sex & the City reboot the day after emergency plastic surgery. The day before the job, I accidentally split my forehead open, went to City MD covered in blood, and they sent me to a Park Avenue plastic surgeon. How on-brand is that?!? So here’s […]
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“All I know about Mary is that she pondered in her heart and she wore a blue sheet!”
“All I know about Mary is that she pondered in her heart and she wore a blue sheet!”Thinking back to this exasperated line in one of the Church Basement Ladies musicals, “Away in the Basement.” The young girl destined to play Mary in the Christmas Pageant was frustrated that there was not more information available […]
Ever put on last year’s clothes from a particular season and they fit, but they don’t fit?
This is not a post about physically outgrowing a fall jacket. It’s a post about life from a year or two ago just no longer feeling like it fits. We’ve all been through a pandemic. We’re all emerging out of it. Some things about our old lives will fit. Some won’t. Maybe we can just […]
Who will tell the story of your life?
Who will tell the story of your life? That’s the theme of a musical I performed over the last month at a theatre in Missouri. It’s the seventh in a series of musicals about the “Church Basement Ladies,” which I have been performing at various theaters for over ten years.This one is framed as a […]
After a year of disconnection, this is a chance to know and be known.
After a year of disconnection, this is a chance to know and be known. After a year of the world shifting, this is a chance to faithfully consider how we have shifted.After a year of responding to each crisis as it arises, this is a time to step into our gifts and skills to move […]
Are you ready to take the risk to be changed, but in a safe, supportive environment?
Sometimes your calling is about how it changes others. Sometimes it’s about how it changes you.Many of my coaching clients have an inkling that they want to do something different, but they don’t honor it because they feel-self indulgent. They think they should focus more on what everyone around them wants them to do.They end […]
Don’t let the signs get in your way. Just find another way.
When the world says stop, when the world says you can’t turn left, sometimes we forget that there’s another way. Sometimes we need to pause, watch for others approaching, and then take three right turns to get to our goal that we know is out in left field. Don’t let the signs get in your […]
What abundance is up ahead for you?
Sometimes you can see that abundance growing up ahead, but walking that last few yards feels like a country mile. What helps in these situations are three things:1. Remind yourself what’s up ahead and WHY you want it, because maybe you don’t anymore, but if you do, it’s worth continuing to move toward it in […]
Taking that leap forward.
Sometimes you work on something slowly, or consider an idea or change awhile, and then suddenly it’s time to take a leap forward. After three years of slowly creating content for our web series, A Dairy Tale, my writing partner and I transformed the entire thing into a pilot script in less than two weeks. […]
Sometimes you need to climb up on the picnic table to really appreciate the view.
Sometimes you need to climb up on the picnic table to really appreciate the view. If you’ve been keeping your head down in the details and working hard, I hope you’ll take some time today to pause and appreciate the bigger picture. And when you’re ready to climb your next mountain (I know, so many […]