Frenchie Friday: My Inner Frenchie Answers Your Holiday Questions

Two years ago, I was in Paris for Christmas. May I add that the energy was so different than the Christmas craze I had left behind in the States. Excitement, elegance and joie de vivre were palpable as I walked through the Marais.  I returned home with a new sense of what the holidays should feel like. With just five […]

Are You Experiencing Growing Pains?

If we stay where we are, where we’re stuck, where we’re comfortable and safe, we die there… When nothing new can get in, that’s death. Moments of exponential faith and ecstatic thrills followed by feelings of pure grief and painful knots in one’s stomach . . . these are the feelings of growth. A few weeks […]

Prepping for 2014: Clearing the Noise

Oh, the virtual noise – the text messages, emails, newsletters, ads, books, brochures. While, it’s a luxury to have access to so much information, it’s not luxurious to have your life cluttered with excess. I’ve done this process with books, but I let my guard down when it comes to my virtual world. Part of creating […]

How to Roll Out the Red Carpet for Your Guests

As I type this, one of my dearest friends and her daughter are in a plane flying across the country to visit me in Durango. (That’s her and me in the photo from years ago.) I’ve spent the past few days preparing for her arrival, because she’s not just any guest, she’s special – we’ve […]