Real Moments

Trust Your Gut. It's Usually Trying to Tell You Something.
Trust Your Gut. It's Usually Trying to Tell You Something.
Learning to trust your instincts, make your own decisions, and recognize when a little honest advice can help. Life is full of decisions. Some are big enough to keep us... Read more...
A Side Hustle Can Be More Than Extra Money
A Side Hustle Can Be More Than Extra Money
Why Starting a Side Hustle Is About More Than Making Money A side hustle can bring extra income, new skills, personal growth, and unexpected opportunities. Discover why trying something new... Read more...
Five Places on My Bucket List (And Why I Want to Experience Them)
Five Places on My Bucket List (And Why I Want to Experience Them)
From the Northern Lights to the Rose Parade, five unforgettable experiences I'd love to turn into memories. I've always believed that one of the great things about life is that... Read more...
The Friends We Carry With Us
The Friends We Carry With Us
How friendships change as we get older—and why distance, time, and changing lives don’t always mean we’ve grown apart. There was a time when friendship was measured in hours. We... Read more...
It’s Never Too Late for Adventure
It’s Never Too Late for Adventure
Maybe the first adventure is finding the courage to go. I’ve spent a lot of my life wanting to have adventures. Not necessarily wild, daredevil adventures. I’m talking about seeing... Read more...
Leave With Dreams Still on the Table
Leave With Dreams Still on the Table
Why I Believe We Should Never Stop Dreaming, No Matter Our Age I’m 62 years old, and I still have dreams. Not memories of dreams I once had. Not a... Read more...
What Next? Finding Your Path at a Crossroad
What Next? Finding Your Path at a Crossroad
There are moments in life when we reach the end of something and almost immediately find ourselves asking a deceptively simple question: What next? Sometimes it comes after an accomplishment.... Read more...
Find Your Seat at the Table
Find Your Seat at the Table
You Are Doing a Great Job...But I recently attended a meeting for a business organization with more than 100 members. Like many volunteer organizations, most of the actual work falls... Read more...
The Gratitude Jar
The Gratitude Jar
The Gratitude Jar In the middle of my dining room table sits a jar. It isn’t particularly fancy. There’s nothing remarkable about it, really. But over the course of a... Read more...
The End of the Driveway
The End of the Driveway
A quiet walk to the end of a driveway became the first little step toward healing, a book, and a reminder that sometimes moving forward begins with simply doing one... Read more...
Nobody Remembers What Place She Finished
Nobody Remembers What Place She Finished
She didn't win the race. She finished it. Sometimes the greatest victory isn't where you place—it's having the courage to show up and keep going. Read more...
Progress Belongs to the People Who Stay
Progress Belongs to the People Who Stay
Progress rarely happens all at once. It comes from showing up again tomorrow, even when today didn't go the way you hoped. Read more...