Author Archive | Agent M1

The other day I was getting waxed (yes, that’s a very human thing to do) and my aesthetician was asking if I got the closure I needed at a recent memorial. Truthfully, I haven’t. I told her that, I’m only now realizing why. I haven’t actually made time to mourn. And maybe that’s why I […]

So, maybe you don’t have fame and fortune. Maybe you feel like you are in the Beatle’s lyrics: He’s a real nowhere man Sitting in his nowhere land Making all his nowhere plans for nobody Doesn’t have a point of view Knows not where he’s going to Isn’t he a bit like you and me? Nowhere […]

  Your mission, if you choose to accept it: Take time to express your feelings in a productive way. Is it gratitude? Love? Self-doubt? Fear?  The more we can self-manage our emotions, the more we can evolve as human beings. Love, hate, anger, jealousy, fear… all human. But why turn someone else’s perfectly good day in a […]

Sometimes my youngest says the darnedest things. From telling me one day to “get my own bloomin’ coffee” when I asked her dad to make me one, to waking up and telling me that her hair looks brushed but it hasn’t been, it just looks that way. I have no idea where she gets her […]

My friend and I were sitting outside late one evening while reminiscing about Suzy. She said her pledge to herself is to become more mindful. She has realized through the 40’s decade of her life that she just doesn’t want to keep up the work pace of her 30’s. As she reflected on why, she […]

This weekend, our plate is full. My husband is on one coast and I’m on the other. My brother just turned a certain age. My mother celebrates her 70+ birthday. My mother-in-law celebrated another year. Family and friends gathered for my college soul mate’s memorial. And my father-in-law’s memorial is tomorrow. Instead of Four Weddings and a […]