I teach singing.  It’s what I do and I’m really very good at it.  I teach technique.  I teach interpretation. I make sure people are singing the right notes and…

Testing for my Black Belt 2018 I was in my 40s when I began martial arts training. Girls didn’t do that when I was growing up.  Girls took ballet.  I…

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ― C.G. Jung I think we all know what compassion is.  We know it when we feel it.  We’re going through a…

Lessons of Grief Today marks the 20 year anniversary I lost my first baby.  I was, at the time, happily married and we were excited to start our family.  My…

Today I find myself thinking about growth.  There is a saying that if a tree stops growing, it is dying.  I have no idea if that’s technically true, but I…

I am never up for sunrise. This was captured after my grandmother’s memorial, up early to catch a flight from Florida back to LA. On this the Winter Solstice, I…

The summit at Temescal Canyon Trail I have been training in martial arts for eight years and every year at this time, Master Turnhout exhorts us to make a Victory…

Who are we without the mirror? What is identity?  It seems almost like a silly question.  I think unless you’ve had some sort of identity crisis it doesn’t even occur…

What is fear? And what is fearlessness? As a two-time breast cancer survivor and mom to a special needs kid, I consider myself fairly fearless. I have lived with intense…

“Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature” –Marilyn Monroe When I was staring down the barrel of my mastectomy, I attempted to find articles on sexuality…