Recently, when I was working late, I received this text: “Just finished my annual tradition of watching your beautiful, amazing Christmas concert. It’s never Christmas without belting out the Magnificat or crying to One Solitary Life. You are a true gift. And I’m...

Less than two weeks until Christmas. How are you feeling? Have you felt the magic of the season yet? The depth and the miracles?  Last week, the boys, David, Luna and I drove to the main square of our historic Franklin downtown to see the Christmas tree lighting. We...

This past week, I spent a lot of time visualizing.    I got a really beautiful intention exercise from my Chopra certification program and I used it both on myself and to help my coaching clients.    It really works!   I know this because when I look back at my life,...

Tell me if this sounds familiar... You have a big holiday or an event coming, and you focus all your energy on it. You tell yourself once it’s over, then you’ll tend to everything else in your life. Right? Well, from the perspective of a mom who wanted to soak up...

Soon, it will be Thanksgiving. How are you feeling? What are your plans? And what do you envision, hope, or want to happen?  I drove to Savannah to pick up one of my boys from college and bring him home for the Holidays. The oldest will fly home on Monday and we will...

“Give yourself more credit than criticism, more grace than judgment," Kristina Kuzmic* said from the stage in a packed Nashville venue. My friend and I looked at each other. Yes. We both nodded in agreement.  I don’t remember the last time somebody had me belly...

I’m sure at some point in your life you have asked yourself the question: “What is my purpose?” (Another way people ask this question is "What is God’s will for my life?" What did it feel like when you found an answer or even a hint of it? What did you do when you...

And just like that, the days got colder and the evenings darker.  I roasted a pumpkin, made a pumpkin curry soup and a loaf of pumpkin bread and let the fragrance of fall spices fill the house. I needed the warm, grounding, heavier foods after the winds came in,...

Last Sunday, my sixteen-year-old son, Blais, took me out to dinner. He was excited to share with me a little sushi place run by a husband and wife. We sat down and just as he finished telling me how the chef remembered everyone, the chef approached our table with a...

This year, we closed the concert and our tour with Those Were the Days. The audience sang with us, cried with us, laughed at Brian’s comic moment, and at the end of the song, they stood up and applauded for a long time. We all felt moved, elevated, expanded, our...