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(Image: Our documentary is an OFFICIAL SELECTION for the Duluth-Superior Film Festival and will screen on Sunday Oct 6th at 12:30 pm at Zinema in Duluth! I would love to…
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My Dad was born during the Great Depression and Taught Me Stuff. He encouraged us to turn off lights and to buy our cars used. In grad school, I subscribed…
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Like me, you want to SHOW UP and GROW in your life! Let’s do it! Here are my best ideas for the week! 1. UNDAAAH PRESSHAAH….(cue the David Bowie Tune)…
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I returned from Ghost Ranch full of inspirations! If you’d like to tour my sketchbook (8 min!) that is here. A few Things I learned from Spending Time with Georgia…
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Here are some ideas to help you SHOW up and GROW in your own life..and have a little FUN! 1. Something REALLY wonderful happened 🌻, then, I freaked out. 😰 …
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Sometimes, our biggest growth opportunity is revealed when gifts, opportunities or some other AMAZING GOODNESS appears right in front of us. Have you ever had something so good happen–that it…
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Here are some ideas to help you SHOW up and GROW in your own life..and have a little FUN! 1. Can An Ex Pathologist/Decoupage Enthusiast/ Shamanic Devotee Also Be An Influencer? Yes,…
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Here are this week’s ideas to help you SHOW UP AND GROW in your own life. 1. Gucci Not Guilty I’ve been thinking a LOT about #pleasure and all the…
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Here are this week’s ideas to help you SHOW UP AND GROW in your own life. 1. I SOMETIMES STRUGGLE TO FEEL WORTHY. Many of us are on a journey to…
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Here are this week’s ideas to help you SHOW UP AND GROW in your own life. 1. Your Triggers Are Your Spiritual Homework: A few years back boudoir photography was…
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1. What if everything works out? Life has been running pretty smoothly for me in so many ways. The kids are all out of the house (for now!), it’s been…
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My opening for my solo art show (my first official!) was a smash success and I’ve been on a high, ever since, from being with dear friends, famIly and spending…
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1. Pursuing A Dream Is What Heals Us. My husband and I drove down to visit his dad this weekend who just lost his wife recently. He’s doing really well, and…
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“The Pugs and Flowers Whispered Their Good Advice”- on show in Grand Marais June 1-30, 2024 at the Grand Marais Art Colony 1. I am still using my dead father’s…
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Dear readers, Mailchimp (or Mailchimp’s AI robot?) has apparently read my newsletters and encouraged me to more SKIMMABLE. Gah! But, it’s so hard when you have so much to share!…
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Here are a few things that are giving me life…. 1. Quantity Versus Quality. Years ago when I was doing some research for the 100 day project, I stumbled upon this…
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1. The Wonderful Comfort of Symbols. When I was in crisis in 2010 ((leaving medicine for a spiritual journey into writing and more..), it was the symbolic meaning of wild…
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1. A New Way to Think About Your Inner Critic: I still hear wonderful teachers of creativity admonishing people to tell their inner critic to SHUT UP ALREADY, or to…
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Here are a few things that are giving me life…. 1. It’s important to share about the miracles we experience. This is something I learned about the conditions that make miracles possible in…
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As a 9 year old child, my parents took me to the National Gallery on a vacation and I was able to chose a print to take home. I chose…
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Here are five feel good ideas that are giving me life…. 1. Could I Be Afraid of Pleasure? I believe it when Brene Brown says that the emotion we are most…
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Here are five ideas that are giving me life…. 1. There Are Many Ways to Pray. Prayer is something I’ve always been curious about. I wrote about what my mom…
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(new work “Open Heart” by me…36 x 36″ Mixed media on canvas Available. “Gertrude Stein defined LOVE as ‘the skillful audacity required to share an inner life.‘…Stein’s idea suggests that…
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(art featured above is “When She Took Care of Herself Everythign Flowed: To purchase visit this page. “In my life I have found two things of priceless worth – learning…
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“You Are So Magnificent” by Sarah Seidelmann This one is SOLD but other work is available here. Something odd happened the summer I went on sabbatical from my medical practice…
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(Matisse’s Red Room from my sketchbook drawn at MOMA in New York City) Here Are 5 Ideas That Are Giving Me Life This Week 1. I could let it be…
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Here are a few of the uncommon books that truly hit the spot for me in 2023. (in no specific order) Foreverland by Heather Havrilesky (memoir) I don’t think I have…
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I have so many things to share with YOU that I decided to try out a LIST format again. I hope you find something here to inspire you! 1. I was reading…
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The longest day of the year will soon be behind us. I am soaking up the darkness and exploring those things that go bump in the night inside of me. Soon…
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At age 43 I got a strange yearning to write books. One year later, in 2011, I self published my first book. A year after that, I published Born to FREAK.…
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