I’m 35, living in New Jersey, working as Director of International Marketing for a publishing company. I love my job, travel the world, and have worked hard to get where I am. Then I come home from a trip to Australia and find out the company is being sold. The job I’ve worked so hard to create will likely disappear in the merger. I’m pretty upset, and I have no idea what I’m going to do. My friend Rob, who’s the company’s CIO, comes into my office, sees the state I’m in, and asks: “Do you have someone who can help guide you through this transition?” I say, “Nope.” So…

“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” ~Blaise Pascale, French Mathematician, physicist, Inventor, and Philosopher After my mom died, I realized I was almost afraid of silence. It reminded me of the silence after Emma died, which I wrote about last year. When everything got quiet, I knew that’s when the grief would come. I had no other distractions. I’d sit, read my daily meditations from Melody Beattie, write in my journal, and in that quiet, all my feelings bubbled to the surface. So I did everything I could to fill the silence. I’d play instrumental music while I did my morning…

Many years ago, back when I lived and worked in New Jersey… The computer screen sits there ultra-bright, and the cursor keeps blinking at me, taunting me to get my fingers on the keyboard and get the words out already… Yeah, the words aren’t coming yet. It’s been a long day, and my commute back and forth to work always sucks because it eats over 2 ½ hours of my life in New Jersey traffic you can’t even imagine. (Unless you’ve lived there 😉  I can still feel the tension in my shoulders as I try to relax into my chair. I’m sitting in my home office, staring at the…

I finally settled on the couch with a blanket and Ruby, my favorite dog-sitting and TV-watching buddy. It had been a long day. I’d taken Alice to the airport earlier, and she’d be gone for five days. Work was done, dinner was over, and I finally had time to watch The Devil Wears Prada 2. Who doesn’t like Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway, Stanley Tucci, and Emily Blunt in the same movie? 🙂  If you haven’t seen the movie, maybe skip reading this, cuz there’s gonna be some spoilers.  In the movie, Anne Hathaway’s character, Andy, faces a decision about whether to write a tell-all book about Meryl’s character, Miranda Priestly.…