The Duchess has left the Building

Good Morning!
I am using this morning to wish you a Happy Thanksgiving! I realize the holidays aren’t until next week – but here at Duchess we are closing down until Monday December 1st. I’m having a little surgery today and need a few days of recovery time. Plus – I’m working on some exciting changes [...]

Taking it to the Streets

There is a lot going on lately. In the world at large, but also in my own life. And while some of it is a little worrying, I feel like a lot of it is really encouraging and hopeful. We will have a whole new political landscape and leadership next year – that’s pretty freaking [...]

Duchess Digest Wednesday

By now you know that Wednesday is the day the Duchess Digest Column goes up on Singe Minded Woman. So head on over and check out this weeks installment. It’s on facing challenges and difficult life circumstances.
 
http://blogs.singlemindedwomen.com/?cat=1594
 
Hope you all have a great Wednesday!
 

Colorful Remarks

I mentioned yesterday about my L.A.F.S. group that met on Sunday night. Well for all of you who don’t have a group, I highly recommend organizing one. Follow the Jim Collins adage of, “First who, then what.” Make sure the girls (or perhaps in your case there will be guys too) you pick are going [...]

A Sense of Self

Hope you all had a great weekend. I know I did! A wonderful day of much needed sleep on Saturday, which finally pushed me over the hurdle I’ve straddling between a cold and healthy – apparently loads of sleep = healthy. Yay! Then Sunday I treated myself to a great facial and an afternoon in [...]

As a (wo)man thinketh Part Two

I’m liking this James Allen book so much that I thought I would add another quote and send you blissfully into your weekend. I was thinking of the thoughts become things idea and I realized something last night. Specifics count. I’ll leave it at that for now.
 
“Thought and character are one, and as character can [...]

As a (wo)man thinketh

Thursday’s thought comes from James Allen’s little book of meditations and essays called As A Man Thinketh. He likens the mind to a garden. Whether it is cultivated or not, things will grown from the soil. So either we cultivate and plant great seeds of thought in our mind, or we let our mind sit [...]

Duchess Digest Wednesday

Wednesday’s are Duchess Digest Day over on the fabulous website, Single Minded Woman. I already checked the site out this morning and there is some great new content, including information on facials (which I’ve been pondering and needing for seven months now!) and some great financial tips and energy conservation tips.
 
I love their site – [...]

Do Unto Others and all that good stuff

Good Morning -
 
This morning’s thought comes from my book Offering: Buddhist Wisdom for Every Day. It is a quote from Pema Chodron and I thought it was a nice way of remembering how interconnected we all are in life. I have been feeling very disconnected from everyone lately. I suddenly realized last night how “up [...]

Gumption

Gumption: common sense, initiative
 
Faced with the reality on Friday that I will not have a job by February, I am trying to muster up some gumption in myself. I had a wonderful weekend of great food, art and my mom – which I’m sad to see come to an end. I haven’t been able to [...]