It All Comes ‘Round Again

What is meant to stay will stay. What is meant to leave will leave. Memorize the beginnings and endings. Because they will come again.

Are You On Auto-Pilot?

Learn to identify what drains you and what emboldens you. What gives you energy and what depletes you of it? You’ve got to know for sure. We often go about our days on auto-pilot even during activities that are supposed to be “good” for us like exercising, being with family, taking care of children, celebrating [...]

Be Patient With Yourself

Be extremely patient with yourself. Transformation does not occur all at once. It happens step by step, day by day, bit by bit. It is a process that evolves, unfolds, and surfaces. While parts of you transform, other parts stand still or even regress. It is the lifelong work of a woman to know this [...]

Is it Girl or Woman?

A lot of people ask me why I created a pinwheel “girl” and not a pinwheel “woman.” While critiquing my book, The Pinwheel Girl Takes Flight~ Every Woman’s Journey Through Seven Stages of Transformation, a person my age who identified herself as a “feminist” told me she didn’t like the word “girl” and because I [...]

Are you a Pinwheel Girl? More notes.

This week I’ve been cleaning out and organizing my office and I came across some notes about the character of the Pinwheel Girl I had written down in a notebook before The Pinwheel Girl Takes Flight was published. I was doing a character study of her and had wanted to articulate why she was so [...]

One woman, one life, one book at a time…

I recently participated in a book signing for The Pinwheel Girl Takes Flight at a major women’s clothing retailer. The store was having a big sale — 30% off everything! I was so excited to participate! I was told the store is PACKED on these special sale days and that the line to check out [...]

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