Category Archives: Ink in the Wheels: Stories to Make Love Roll

Stepping Up to Embrace Otherness

      How do you react when you come across something that is different? We might react with curiosity, fear, comparisons, hesitation, or acceptance. These are all normal reactions when we meet “the other.” In an essay my father, … Continue reading

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Grace in the Face of Defeat and Fulfilling Impossible Dreams

Today, I watch anxiously, checking every few minutes on Diana Nyad’s blog. She is hours from completing her extreme dream of swimming in the open ocean from Cuba to Key West. To get there, she made four previous attempts, was … Continue reading

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One Way Around the Van in the Middle of the Road

On our last post, we talked about Megan’s car breaking down, and how we hoped to transform this challenge into an opportunity to propel us forward in both professional goals- to get Ink in the Wheels: Stories to Make Love … Continue reading

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The Pages Dreams are Made of

When I was a little girl, I would write in my journal and hide it under my bed, and as a teenager hide notebooks in my locker at school. I always knew I would be a writer, and it would … Continue reading

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Turning the Page and Feeling Carried by Life’s Momentum

What a crazy week it has been. We have just returned from the mountains for a conference of mine. And amidst our work on a variety of our normal contracts while we were there, Megan and I have both been hurling … Continue reading

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