December 2014 archive

Embracing Your Inner Goddess

Four years ago one of my favorite clients asked me to attend her year-end goddess soiree. After making sure it didn’t involve nudity, animal sacrifice, or drugs I was sufficiently curious to check it out.  Nervous yes.  I mean what does a financial advisor wear to a goddess soirée?  A toga and a pinstriped blazer?  […] Read more…

How Not To Tell Your Kid About Santa: My Epic Parent Failure.

I have two sons.  They are as different as night and day.  Which seems to be how most two child families are organized personality-wise.  My youngest is sweet, loveable, easy-going, and finds joy in everything.  My oldest we’ve nicknamed the “Evil Genius.”  He knows exactly what he wants and if there is deviation from his […] Read more…

Protests, Racial Politics, and The World We Want

I am an unapologetic privileged white woman.  And I’ve worked really hard to become one.  I am the daughter of two hippie parents so money was never easy to come by – it just wasn’t that important.  It also meant I grew up in the tough inner city so my hippie parents could revitalize the […] Read more…