“I have to say, Mama Gena did not impress me.”
Darling, Women are like trees. When we are given fertile soil, glorious sunshine, abundant water, and a perfect climate, not only will we thrive and grow, but we will provide so much beauty and joy and...
View ArticleDoes “having it all” piss you off?
Darling, Do you get as irritated as I do when you hear the phrase “having it all”? Bleh. I have met that woman. I have been that woman. Madly dashing around, trying to look good, feel good, do good, be...
View ArticleI am so, so, so grateful
Darling, So grateful. So moved. So overwhelmed. Still floating in the ecstatic brew of the fragrant spell of Mastery. I am deeply grateful for the 250 exquisite women who have come together for this...
View ArticleWhere women store the most garbage
Darling, I am going through this absolutely agonizingly delicious process, right now, of clearing out and reorganizing my office. (Impatient sigh.) Taking each book from the shelf, holding it in my...
View ArticleUnder Pressure
Sister, When was the last time you were brought to your knees? Literally or figuratively? There is you, in one corner. And there is that next step that you need to take, in the other corner, looking...
View ArticleHave you met your inner courtesan?
Darling, In exactly 16 days, a group of 65 women will board a plane and land in Paris. These women are part of my intimate inner circle called The Creation Course. Our purpose? For each of us to ignite...
View ArticleHow to ensure your mediocrity
Darling, There are days, there are times, there are actions that we inhabit that ensure our mediocrity. You know this feeling. You drag yourself from bed, follow the deep grooves of the tracks you laid...
View ArticleFrom rupture to rapture
Darling, This is it. This is the moment I’ve been waiting for since the conception of the Creation Course last year. Paris. In just 48 hours we will all be converging at the Warwick Hotel on the Champs...
View ArticleFrom Paris with love
Darling, I am writing to you on my last night in Paris. All the women from the Creation Course have just left, and I just had to share that I am so deeply grateful. Swept away. So moved. So astonished...
View ArticleSeeds don’t fuss (and why that pisses me off)
Darling, The seed versus the flower. I am compelled by the resilience of a seed. Throw them anywhere that approximates good conditions and you can have yourself an oak tree growing in a sidewalk crack....
View ArticleLike to watch?
Darling, What’s more informative than Wikipedia, more energizing than a green drink, more exhilarating than a roller coaster ride, and more inspirational than the Mormon Tabernacle Choir on a Sunday...
View ArticleWhat are you doing June 23rd?
Darlings, June 23rd… Each year it gets better and better, just like you. Yup—hotter and hotter, just like you. More filled with exploding possibility—just like you. What is it? It’s the Graduation...
View ArticleWe have to do THAT—again?
Darling, Reinvention. Really? We have to do that—again? But I just re-created myself! I thought I dealt myself a brand new set of cards, after taking untold risks and doing a gut reno on my life. Why...
View ArticleThe KEY to men
Darling, I have a little gang of close man-friends. Each of these guys is a rare and wonderful pearl of a man, prince of a man, king amongst kings, in his own unique way. I love my man-tribe, for many...
View ArticleYour annual LIVE mega-dose of Sisterhood
Darling, Whether you’re coming to celebrate one of our current students, or joining in with one of our alumni…whether you’re a former student or a future student…if you’re a woman age 18 or older, come...
View ArticleSisterhood to the Rescue
Darlings, So, next week, my daughter Maggie leaves for camp. It’s a big deal, leaving for camp. She and I won’t be together for 7 weeks, except for one visiting day. And guess when her departure is?...
View ArticleWhen you’re told you have no future…
Darling, We are fresh off our Mastery Graduation weekend and I’m floating in a pleasure-filled haze! I am in deep gratitude for the extraordinary experience that Mastery 2013 has been for me. This was,...
View ArticleYou are the stuff a Revolution is made of
Darling, 240 years ago, a gaggle of American women living in Boston started a revolution. Pissed off at the ever-increasing price of tea, they called a huddle with all their girlfriends, and got their...
View ArticleAre you a One-Trick Negative Pony?
Darling, We all have voices in our heads. Come on, admit it. You know you have them. Chatty little noxious voices that yammer on all day, giving us a running commentary on everything we do or say....
View ArticleWhat are you dying to ask me?
Darling, We all have them, and I want them. Your questions. I want your questions. The itty bitty to the vast interminable. I am doing something I have never done before: next week, I am gathering a...
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