How to Keep an Accomplishment List | Why it Matters

Sense of Place: It’s a Friday night in North County San Diego. Listening to: the always amazing Delta Blues Pandora station and my lightly snoring husband.  Grateful for this, and also for our son AJ – at home and at the moment happy, the dog sleeping on the couch next to me; the weekend in […]

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EP 10: Detours, Potholes, and Great Alignment

https://media.blubrry.com/theworkbench/content.blubrry.com/theworkbench/EP_10-Detours_Potholes_and_Great_Alignment.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHi all, and welcome to the final episode of Season 1 of The Workbench! Looking Back | Looking Ahead In 2007, our family moved back to San Diego from Connecticut, and after packing up the house, we drove ourselves out across this great nation to our new and next […]

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EP 09: Bittersweet | Maintaining Joy in the Face of Loss

https://media.blubrry.com/theworkbench/content.blubrry.com/theworkbench/Produced-EP_09_Bittersweet.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHello Workbench Friends! Today’s episode is one that my dear friend and WB contributor Lyn has been wanting to discuss for some time, and it’s on the topics of Joy and Loss. We hope you enjoy this wide-ranging conversation about the existence and intersection of these two seemingly opposite […]

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A Short Hiatus | Lifting Overwhelm | Let Joy Bloom…

Hey Workbench Friends! Stay tuned…I am finalizing the remaining Season One Episodes of the Workbench Podcast and I can’t wait to share Episode 09 with you next Tuesday, 10/22. In the meantime, I came across this gem today and thought I’d share. Thank you to Arianna Huffington and her creation of Thrive Global. This community […]

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Support System

Reading right now: Steven King – On Writing – A Memoir of the Craft and found this gem: “Life isn’t a support system for art. It’s the other way around.” What are your thoughts on this? I read this and knew its truth deep in my bones. So now the question becomes: how can I […]

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EP 08: Muse | Inspiration | Catalyst

https://media.blubrry.com/theworkbench/content.blubrry.com/theworkbench/EP_08_Muse_Inspiration_and_Catalyst.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadHi all and good morning! I hope you enjoy this conversation that Lyn and I had back in June of this year. The featured photo is of Lyn’s office – a labor of love and a vision finally realized. Many people contributed to this build, but it was Lyn’s […]

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