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Communicating, Flourishing

Sharing a Fine Whine

Whining often gets a bad rap. Culturally, it conjures images of someone stuck in the past, replaying the same story to anyone […]

sallyjfoxJune 19, 20254 min read
Flourishing

Loving the flowers (a pause)

The News: Everything is Bad The Poet: Okay, and what if we still fall in love with the moon and learn something […]

sallyjfoxMarch 12, 20251 min read
Flourishing

Hip, Hip, Hooray

The last couple of weeks have brought much to celebrate: An amazing change in the race for the US Presidential Elections. A […]

sallyjfoxAugust 8, 20241 min read
Flourishing

Letting Curiosity Guide Us When Things Fall Apart

Last week I lost my neighbor and riding coach, a friend I’d known for thirty years. Hearing the news of her death […]

sallyjfoxAugust 1, 20243 min read
Flourishing, Musing

Letting life “cure” us

Every day, life burnishes and “cures” us —sometimes by the unexpected and dramatic, sometimes by the routine and ordinary. We feel, we […]

sallyjfoxMay 30, 20241 min read
Change, Flourishing

When who we are is how we are supposed to be

Last week I received the latest episode in my ongoing series, “Lessons in Loss and Grief.” A close, dear friend died after […]

sallyjfoxMarch 21, 20244 min read
Flourishing

Small Acts Can Light the World

All around us tiny acts of kindness are happening daily. You have done some of them. Big or small, they bring light […]

sallyjfoxFebruary 22, 20242 min read
Flourishing

And now, a brief view from the land of the ordinary

The world’s been a bit gloomy, so I thought we needed a change. A little visit to main street, real life, the […]

sallyjfoxJanuary 25, 20241 min read
Change, Flourishing

Set Up Your Day With Morning Rituals and Routines

In these tumultuous times, as I wrote about last week, morning rituals and routines set the direction for our days. They offer a base […]

sallyjfoxJanuary 11, 20245 min read
Creating, Flourishing

Coping with (collective) grief during the holidays

The holidays can be challenging when we’re feeling grief, especially after personal losses—even those from long ago. This year many of us […]

sallyjfoxDecember 14, 20233 min read
Creating, Flourishing

Overwhelmed? It’s OK to “Cry Uncle!”

I had tea this week with a close friend, one of the most kind, competent, and generous people I know. Also one […]

sallyjfoxSeptember 7, 20234 min read
Creating, Flourishing

How to Celebrate a Birthday with 72 Delights

Birthdays are a funny thing. When I was six, a birthday expanded my world. It meant more adventures, a later bedtime, and an allowance. But […]

sallyjfoxAugust 10, 20234 min read
Flourishing

To bless the cyber space between us

What if you had a friend with whom you spent a sizeable portion of your life, yet you treated the relationship like […]

sallyjfoxJune 29, 20234 min read
Flourishing

Are you “too sensitive?”

Did anyone ever tell you, “You’re being too sensitive” when you were growing up? Maybe they wanted to help you by offering […]

sallyjfoxJune 7, 20236 min read
Creative aging, Flourishing

Wordless

Words are beautiful but sometimes need to waitLest they be out of place.The world must be experienced before it can be described. I tread […]

sallyjfoxMay 26, 20231 min read
Creating, Flourishing

Letting the tulips sing

Can flowers sing? No way to prove this but recently they sang to me. Finding new colors I recently returned from visiting […]

sallyjfoxMay 11, 20232 min read
Communicating, Flourishing

Traveling off the path of normal

sallyjfoxMay 4, 20234 min read
Flourishing, Uncategorized

Seeding hope in late winter

sallyjfoxFebruary 23, 20234 min read
Flourishing

Look at the past—bring in the light. Happy 2023

2023 is here. Happy New Year. The light is returning—a good time to reflect on the year that was and, as we […]

sallyjfoxJanuary 5, 20233 min read
Flourishing

Embracing darkness/celebrating light

We’re on countdown to the winter solstice next week—the darkest time of the year. I have mild seasonal affective disorder (SAD), and […]

sallyjfoxDecember 15, 20223 min read
Flourishing

Stop the delivery mania: An Open letter to Santa

I don’t want to seem ungrateful, Santa, and I hope all is well at the North Pole. I know this year’s supply […]

sallyjfoxDecember 8, 20224 min read
Flourishing

Planting hope

This week I planted daffodils. There’s nothing remarkable about this, although some might question why I waited to dig holes in the […]

sallyjfoxDecember 1, 20222 min read
Flourishing

Stepping back from the precipice of stress

I blew off a meeting this week, a short talk I was to give, and my mistake left me humbled. As awful […]

sallyjfoxNovember 17, 20224 min read
Flourishing

The art of waiting

Waiting. We do a lot of it. Waiting in traffic, in the checkout, or for that blankity-blank Amazon delivery. Sometimes there’s a […]

sallyjfoxNovember 10, 202212 min read
Flourishing

How  to let go before the elections

If, like me, you’re prone to even a little anxiety, the days prior to the midterm elections in the United States can be […]

sallyjfoxNovember 3, 20223 min read
Flourishing

If you hang in there, things will (probably) work out

Lesson number two from my time in Italy: Things may not work out the way you wanted or expected, but hang in […]

sallyjfoxSeptember 8, 20224 min read
Flourishing

The art of nothing-ing

September is here, school bells have rung, and I’m here with my first blog since leaving for Italy. I missed you even […]

sallyjfoxSeptember 1, 20224 min read
Flourishing

Finding human in a transactional world

I stood at the parking meter, fuming. I had just scored a parking place near the Seattle hospital where I planned to […]

sallyjfoxJune 2, 20224 min read
Flourishing

Heat wave

As the heat inched past 100 Our Northwest hubris We don’t need air conditioning, We can sit under trees Melted away. I couldn’t […]

sallyjfoxJuly 1, 20211 min read
Flourishing

Anxious in America

Hopefully, the pandemic is receding and so, too, is the spike in national (and global) anxiety it provoked. I suspect, though, that […]

sallyjfoxMay 27, 20215 min read
Flourishing

Are you feeling exhausted?

A second pandemic is sweeping the nation. I don’t know how contagious it is, but I know it’s spreading. Exhaustion. You recognize […]

sallyjfoxJuly 16, 20205 min read
Creating, Flourishing

Why Positive Thinking Can Have Negative Results (and what to do about it)

    In last week’s post I wrote: “Wishful thinking actually decreases our possibility of meaningful action,” as I explored why dedicating ourselves to what […]

pnhd6January 5, 20174 min read
Flourishing, Leading

A simple tool for managing complexity

I'm not a to-do list obsessive kind of gal. So you wouldn’t think I’d get excited by a book called The Checklist Manifesto. I’ve become a believer in his main premise: In a complex world, the simple checklist can be an extraordinary help (and will save lives.)

pnhd6February 11, 20154 min read
Flourishing, Leading, Storytelling

Finding the bigger story

Are you feeling tired of hearing all the government-bashing by the punditry? Isn't it time to create some bigger more empowering stories about the institutions and causes we care about?

pnhd6February 3, 20152 min read
Creating, Flourishing

The secret reason you need to dance (or get moving!) Hint: it’s not fitness…

I’m a dancer. Who stopped dancing. But now I’ve a new reason to move – and it’s not about fitness. Do you […]

pnhd6January 25, 20154 min read
Communicating, Flourishing

How to change your pose to change your life

Can body language, and specifically your posture influence how you think, how you feel, and how you are perceived in the world? Dr. Amy Cuddy thinks so - and presents her findings in her popular TED talk. I do too, except that those power poses all look like alpha males! I think so, and that’s why I wanted to hear Dr. Amy Cuddy’s TED talk “Your Body Language Shapes Who You Are.” It’s one of most viewed TED talks ever. I could see why: Cuddy’s poised, personal, and packs a powerful take-away: the idea that you can become more self assured and be perceived as powerful by simply shifting your stance for a couple of minutes.

pnhd6January 11, 20154 min read
Creating, Flourishing

Celebrating you

In this season of gifts and celebrations, wise men and pilgrimages, the dark of night, and the light of new beginnings, I […]

pnhd6December 22, 20141 min read
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