Lighten Your Load to Improve Your Journey

by tatiana | Jan 13, 2020

I got into the passenger seat of my car and closed the door. “Did I pack everything?” I asked David, who was taking me to the rental car office. From there, I’d rent a car and drive to Texas to continue our Waking Up In America Tour I recited the...

Are You Constraining Life’s Gifts?

by tatiana | Jan 6, 2020

Happy New Year! On the first day of 2020 I wanted to dress up. I put on a dress and a string of pearls before finishing dinner. I lit a pair of tall candles on my beautifully set dinning room table and called the kids down. Evan put piano music on, and after a...

Going Into A New Decade..

by tatiana | Dec 30, 2019

 It’s here – the end of another year, the end of another decade. And the beginning of a new one. 2020. (‘Twenties are here again!’ as my friend wrote on her Instagram, with a pic of some happy flapper dancers LOL) My hope (and intention) is to...

How To Do More Out Of Love

by tatiana | Dec 23, 2019

For the first time ever, I am actually ahead of Christmas! Well, maybe not ever, just since before I had children 🙂 And maybe not ahead, just not terribly behind! I got all the shopping done and my Christmas cards actually arrived with plenty of time for me to write...

The Role Music Plays In Our Lives

by tatiana | Dec 16, 2019

It was Thursday late afternoon and I was rushing to meet a deadline and finish the article for the column I write in a Franciscan Magazine out of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina. When my editor in chief sent out the email to all the contributors a few weeks ago, he...

Let Light Into Your Heart

by tatiana | Dec 9, 2019

It gets dark so early this time of year. And it may be just me, but it seems that winter nights are somehow darker than those in the summer. Perhaps it’s the absence of fireflies, or the positioning of the stars and the moon, or it’s simply that winter skies tend to...