Unexpected Gifts - 365 Days of Adventure Joy and Abundance

Have you ever heard someone speak and you had no idea the impact they would have on you?

That was me, last week!

I read a poem at a luncheon I hosted with WISH’s Tera Warner, and heard it repeated by Leigh Anne Tuohy, whose family was made famous with the movie “The Blind Side”.  The funny [...]

Ginger and Ganesh - 365 Days of Adventure, Joy and Abundance

Nani Power’s post on Craig’s List “please teach me Indian cooking?  I will bring ingredients and pay you for your trouble.  I would like to know about your culture as well.” led her into into the kitchen and hearts of women who were willing to share their family recipes and stories from their hearts and [...]

Light the Night

Why I walk…
Lynn Webb-Thomas lit up the room the first time I met her: she was wearing a brightly coloured outfit, a huge smile, and carrying a big glass of water. Lynn had just been hired to work with BC HRMA on the Annual Conference. She transformed a declining conference into [...]

Changing Our Minds

As the light changed I entered the intersection, at the same time that another car decided not to stop at his red light but just make a right turn and end up directly in front of me.  No harm done…until he pulled into a prime parking spot where I wanted to go.   Admittedly, I am [...]

Inspire - Veronique da Silva

“Style” is the first word that came to me when I met Veronique da Silva.  She attended a women’s networking event that I was hosting and when she arrived you could feel her presence – you knew that this was a woman who not only makes things happen but would attract a lot of amazing [...]

For all the mothers who didn't win 'mother of the year'

All the runners up and all the wannabes.  The mothers too tired to enter or too busy to care.   This is for all the mothers who froze their buns off on metal bleachers at soccer games Friday night instead of watching from cars, so that when their kids asked, “Did you see my goal?” they [...]

Cherish The Moments

I remember writing in my newsletter when my son graduated highschool and went off to college that one of my favourite quotes was gifted to me with a beautiful image from the Jody Bergsma Gallery in Bellingham, WA.  It read, “there are two things we can give our children, the first is roots, the other [...]

Meals 4 Haiti

“You have never really lived until you’ve done something for someone who can never repay you.”

My Arbonne Team and I are sending ready to drink protein shakes to our relief workers in Haiti. The NEED for prepared meals in paper containers FAR exceeds the amount they have to distribute in Haiti. Arbonne’s premade protein shakes [...]

The Necklace

Here we are, women, who have been the beneficiaries of education, resources, reproductive choice, travel opportunities, the Internet, and a longer life expectancy than women have ever had in history.   What can and will we do?

- Jean Shinoda Bolen -

And so begins this book that I picked up just before Christmas – one of those [...]

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