health – sharing the stairs

What If…You Create a New Habit?

9 Jun 202013 Jun 2020

Things have been pretty heavy 😢lately- and they should be. There's some critical work to do in this 🌎world with race relations and living through the pandemic. The quote on…

What if…We Remember to be Grateful?

23 May 202023 May 2020

It's effortless to complain, isn't it? 😞Sometimes, that grumbling reaction is the first one to the surface. As the saying goes- been there, done that. Some days seem to have…

What If…We Keep Learning?

8 May 202010 May 2020

It has been NINE weeks😳 since I first started to understand that life was about to shift. The news of this faraway virus wasn't so abstract anymore. We started to…

What If…We Spend This Time Thinking

17 Apr 202025 Apr 2020

What if we keep doing our 🌟best? I posed that question last Sunday. What does that mean to you? What is our 🌟best? Your 🌟best? My 🌟best? I felt that…

What If…We Just Keep Doing Our Best

17 Apr 202019 Apr 2020

I don't really have some big picture post this week with connections to life and 💪health and 😍happiness. Honestly, I'm doing the same thing you're doing- just getting through this…

What If…We Focused on the Same Goal

9 Apr 202012 Apr 2020

It was March 13, 2020, when I wrote about my grandmother's experience with the 😷Spanish Flu way back in 1918. I was 📝working on another piece for my weekly Sunday…

What If…We Don’t Try to Steer

2 Apr 20205 Apr 2020

You might think I'm one of those people who rolls with the punches. There are times that is true, for sure. Not always, though. The big 😀smile hides my tendency…

What If…Peace is Still Here

25 Mar 20205 Apr 2020

"In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you." ~Deepak Chopra The days are starting to run together.😬 I have to pause and think about what day…

What If…We Work Together?

20 Mar 20206 Jun 2020

These last few days have been a 🎢rollercoaster ride. I don't need to tell you that. The scariest thing is that we can't get off. It's like we had a…

My Survival Guide to Social Distancing

18 Mar 202018 Mar 2020

Routines are comforting to me. I appreciate things that I can count on. Since my typical days- like yours- have been turned upside down and inside out, I've had to…

What If…We Respect the Science

13 Mar 20206 Jun 2020

My grandmother's sister went to a birthday 🎂 party way back in the year 1918. This was the same year as the 😷Spanish Flu pandemic, which killed an estimated 20-50…

What If…We Paid Attention

7 Mar 20201 May 2020

It's all too easy to become 🧐absorbed in something and 🙄ignore what is happening around us. Guilty! I've been on my 📱phone in line and not even realized the enormous…

What If…We Listened to Our Bodies?

27 Feb 20201 Mar 2020

I started to feel crummy☠️ over a week ago. You know what I'm talking about- sneezing, rough throat, aches. Nothing that was enough to keep me home. Nothing that would…

What If…We Made Lemonade

24 Jan 202026 Jan 2020

A friend of mine was handed some 🍋lemons this week. The kind of 🍋lemons that make it pretty challenging to make lemonade. The kind of 🍋lemons that make you want…

Self-Care Sunday: Take Your Medicine

14 Dec 201915 Dec 2019

It's that time of year! No- not THAT time of year. I'm talking about cold and flu season. 😷I'm a public school teacher, so I live in germs every day.…

Don’t Be Afraid to Do the Work

When I wrote my book, LIFEGUARD, I specifically wanted it to be a book and workbook in one. My vision was for readers to learn about my personal struggles and…

Self-Care Sunday: Catch Your Breath

29 Sep 20191 Dec 2019

Who else had a crazy, busy week? 🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏻‍♂️It was a good week- don’t get me wrong. It was just one thing moved into the next thing 😬and the next thing 🙄and-well, you get…

Self-Care Sunday: Be Still

Have you ever noticed how much better you feel when you give yourself a moment? A moment to pray?🙏🏻A moment to meditate?😍A moment to gather your thoughts?🤔There’s power in stillness. It’s…

Self-Care Sunday

I love the idea of slowing down to focus on myself. I'm trying-honestly, I'm trying. It's just that life moves so fast, and I'm involved in so many moving pieces.…

When Your Teen Athlete Breaks Her Toe

Our youngest kid is tough. She rarely shows much emotion when she's been hurt, physically or emotionally. She has been that way since she was a little girl. It's just…