Selling a House with St. Joseph...

Sep 4, 2015 by admin

Let me begin by saying that I’m crazy. I know I am. I’m spiritually eccentric, can be socially awkward, and nearly always err on the side of the less than pragmatic. My head full of curly hair lives in the clouds while I only have one foot — maybe even just a toe — on the ground. Now, with that out of the way … As you may or may not know, my family has undergone tremendous change. After over a year, my parents have moved out of the home we shared and into assisted living. This new development has invited great practical and emotional upheaval, not the least of which has included selling our home. About our home; blood, sweat, tears. That’s what my husband and I invested to renovate it and make it inhabitable for...

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Seeing Clearly, Acting Courageously...

May 27, 2015 by admin

The Universe has been screaming to me lately. It seems everywhere I look I see an invitation to examine my thoughts on courage; what it means to be courageous, how to practice courage, and am I a courage person? Courage. As I’ve sat with the idea of courage, my own definition of what courage means to me is beginning to emerge. Admittedly, I find it uncomfortable, troublesome, and nowhere near its conventional meaning. Courage: the ability to do something that you know is difficult or dangerous—Merriam-Webster Let me share something with you. Last March when we were renovating our new home the situation was nothing short of disastrous. In addition to the usual stresses associated with renovations, our experience was made all the more complicated by the incompetent contractor leading the project. There were missed deadlines,...

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