As I sit here pondering the fact that in two weeks I will be 30, I think to myself:
self, what have you picked up from the first 30 years of your life that you will want to continue in the future?
 Hmmm, that’s a darned good question.
Well here are a few pretty darned good answers:
-my youthful [...]

As I wrote in my last post, things have been a little bit hectic for me lately. Between working on mortgage stuff, being in the boardroom, and all the other everyday things that pop up, I’ve been pretty swamped.
But one day this week I stopped by Maia and Craig’s temp housing setup in downtown Seattle [...]

  Sometimes I find myself with so much going on that  I begin to feel the  pressure of it all. It’s like, the knife juggler at the circus who is thinking about having to do laundry, paying his discover card bill, and strategizing his artistry of “picking-up” the world’s tallest woman (also a circus employee) all while [...]

A few days ago my new friend jamie posted a really cool  entry in her blog that talked about her personal strengths. She posed the particular question:
Why is coming up with strengths such a hard task?
It made me wonder- Why is thinking about our strengths such a challenging task? So I set out over the [...]

Alright, alright! 
Enough! I’m thru! After the endless process of writing, vising and revising (I realize “vising is not a word ), designing the cover, and then ordering, waiting, revising, and repeating the ordering, waiting and revising, I’m (finally) pleased to announce:
The Book is done!
I received both the hardcover and paperback editions in the last few days, made [...]

  Many of you may have been surprised to find out that yesterday, June 8 was Best Friends Day.

  I have no doubt that those of you who consider yourselves true friends must have celebrated June 8th by sending your best friends flowers, cards, etc. (or in my case stripping friends of their dignity and [...]

Yesterday, I had an overdue conversation with a longtime friend, Sara.
Sara and I have been friends for years and we’ve seen each other go thru some crazy times. Fun stuff, challenging stuff, downright difficult stuff. It makes the lazy days of endless rounds of good conversation (and all we cared about was getting a $5 [...]

Several days ago, I was having a discussion with my sister about her house buying process. She was stressed and frustrated, feeling inundated with the endless amounts of information that she had in front of her.
Around the same time I had also noticed that several weeks had passed since her last entry in her blog.
Personally, I [...]

  My sister and brother in law are in the process of buying a house. It’s been a really interesting process watching them deliberate, study and analyze all the different things that they want out of a new home. Some house hunting days have seemed exciting, others were days with spreadsheetslistsofprosandconsandendlessmonthlypaymentnumbercrunching.
  No doubt these [...]