Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 1/20/08
After a long week of my husband away on business—and me single handedly creating activities for three young children on Winter Break, shuffling two dogs back and forth to the vet to tend to their various ailments of aging, cleaning the house, doing the laundry, cooking and finally getting all […]

Published in the International Black Belt Academy Newsletter
Dharma, as believed in Hinduism and Buddhism, is a belief—a way of living or ethical system—largely found within oneself through contemplation, rather than in the external world.
There are times in our lives when we realize we have been living in someone else’s Dharma—living within other’s belief systems […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 12/16/07
We’ve all paid our dues–at some point–for the sake of our kids, muscling through the parental prerequisite ninety minutes of yet another disengaging children’s movie. Think “Lilo and Stitch” or “Curly Sue”…
On the other hand, we‘ve also experienced the moment, sitting in those same theater seats, when we […]

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 12/2/07
It is becoming more and more difficult to escape. Phones follow us wherever we go, e-mails ping and blackberries call to us with abbreviations as various TV’s bark for us to “call now!”. Our garages are filled with more cars that take us to more places in less […]