Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 3/16/08

The nature of the human condition beckons for us to answer the question, “who are you?” with specificity and permanence.

Like many, I have long believed having a pure and straightforward explanation of who I am—which I could then place in a neatly labeled box—would provide me with a sustainable peace, allowing me to move effortlessly throughout the rest of my daily life. Read more…

Published in The Broomfield Enterprise, 3/23/08

Like many busy-with-sports-and-activities-during-the-week families, ours has instituted the regularly scheduled and mandatory Sunday Night Dinner. For us, it’s a time to gather at the dining room table with real silverware at our elbows and glasses that don’t need anything twisted off their tops. Read more…

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 three children back into the swing of the school schedule–I heard two of my sweet little ones each say the following:

“Why do I have to do everything around here?” Read more…

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 or contained by their “take” on life. As we get older, and begin to realize who we are instead of whom other’s think we are, we can oftentimes begin to see that we’ve been viewing the world through someone else’s glasses. Those glasses, however, were built from the materials of their past…not ours. Read more…