Link Love!

Link Love!

Hey friends, I thought I’d send out a little link love for your exploring, wandering fun! Recently spent a few hours with my old friend Dani. Love how the work she’s doing these days is so incredibly valuable to what I need as a mom when it comes to...
Creative Awakening in Bali

Creative Awakening in Bali

In Bali there was personal transformation in the form of allowing and awakening and new discoveries. But there was also a creative expansion that I experienced while painting alongside Flora’s guidance for five days.  Sometimes I feel a certain kind of...
Link love!

Link love!

Signed/matted prints available here. It’s been a long time since I offered up some Link Love. Enjoy, to the fullest! Loving that my friend Liz is offering up a 10-day deep dive into self-care just for moms of toddlers. It’s called Water Your Toddler...
The gift of self portraits!

The gift of self portraits!

Back in February, during our Radiate Sessions weekend, the amazingly talented Viv McMaster led us all on a self portrait photo walk. With her guidance those couple of hours of experimenting with self portraiture, and looking into the lens with kindness (have you ever...
Brene + Oprah!

Brene + Oprah!

© Harpo, Inc 2013 | George Burns A few weeks ago I was was taking a quick stroll in downtown Portland and had a sudden inclination to call my friend Brene. And so, I did. “What’s up, friend?!” Brene’s response: “I just finished taping...
on confidence

on confidence

(me, 2006) I learned how to be fearless through the process of learning how to paint in 2006 and 2007. I was 30 years old and feeling anything but fearless, yet that was the year I fell deeply in love with mixed media painting. Like a crush. An obsession. And I...
On tribes. And being a Connectress.

On tribes. And being a Connectress.

(My high school tribe. That’s me on the left.) Twenty four years ago, when I was in high school, I had breakfast every single Thursday morning with the same three friends at the local waffle diner. Every Thursday. For four years. Those friendships became my...
Dear Quiet

Dear Quiet

Signed/Matted prints, available here I’ve been in a private, quiet place the last many weeks. Feels good, grounding, and important. Lately, I’ve been thinking about all the ways I soldier through – even when there isn’t any reason, even if in...
Delight

Delight

You know that moment where you can feel your heart do a little jig, a little heart happy dance, a little lift? I call that delight of the best kind. Here are a few things that have caught my delight lately…. “Whatever you do in life, remember to think...
Introducing Lacy!

Introducing Lacy!

“Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition.” – Henry Mintzberg, Researcher McGill University Friends, I had a moment. A big...
Two good things….

Two good things….

Dear friends,  I feel like I have so much to tell you. I want to tell you about how I’m creating radical support in my life and what that means. I want to tell you about the carrot juice I had this morning that was made in my kitchen and how it didn’t...