by karen | blog |
It’s lovely now. Though, for weeks, I navigated a gauntlet of large machinery every time I left my home – enduring clamorous noise at times necessitating zooming from a tiny remote closet, all while feeling more sensitive than usual due to my mother’s passing. I...
by karen | blog |
Fifteen days without my phone, most of it in foreign countries, was eye-opening. Literally. Conflict doesn’t always happen with another person; it often happens with events or things. Realizing my phone was gone, and after I secured and shut it down, I admit I cried a...
by karen | blog |
How often do you experience a conflict of choice? As a business owner, even with clarity of purpose and budget constraints, the conflict of choosing still exists. This or That? In my life, it goes beyond business decisions; even 30 years ago, there weren’t so...
by karen | blog |
That habit that is just not quite sticking? Perhaps that is a good thing. I’ve rethought habits recently and have a different perspective! I tested for and received my 3rd Dan Blackbelt in Aikido in December. This time around, I unlearned as I prepared. I was...
by karen | blog |
Early Saturday morning, a sound radiating from the wall abruptly broke my slumber. Confused, my heart seemed to stop for a moment. The sound was unfamiliar. It was something alive but had to be bigger than a mouse. I imagined something bigger, like a squirrel, as...