My birthday is coming up – this Saturday, Oct. 15th to be exact. And it’s off-limits to working for anyone else. It’s my day. I am not doing any work except on my own sites and for myself . It’s golden. It’s my day. Why am I bothering to make this so clear?

Every year I “help” someone else on my birthday and feel angry and resentful for doing it because it’s not what I wanted to do and I believed I couldn’t say “no” to my friends. I’ve been working …

I just found out I’m on the cover of We Are All Weird, a new book by Seth Godin. Seth, if you didn’t know, is a business and marketing genius and the reason for my getting the votes I needed to win Dan Pink’s contest and to go to TED Global 2009 and speak at Oxford. He’s also the author of 13 best-selling business books. He rocks.
I’m third from the right on the top row – easier to see in the photo below. This matters to me because I’m on …

“But you don’t look sick.”
If I hear it one more time I may get sick. A friend of mine sent me an email about an ABC reporter looking for someone to interview about Chronic Fatigue Syndrome today. So I emailed her and she called and we ended up talking for awhile about the thing I’m almost more passionate about than homelessness – Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Fibromyalgia.
I have them both and have had since I was 36, although it took much longer to get the diagnosis. Doctors told me I …

I’m working on a series of inspirational emails for a client’s newsletter. I love this kind of work because it forces me to think positively and to look for inspiration in the world around me. It forces me to take my eyes off of the things that hurt, aggravate and irritate me in order to see the magic and wonder in the simple things around me.
That’s the point of the emails as well – to get people to see there is something to be grateful for in everything around us. …

“We’re not lost. We’re on an adventure.” It’s what I used to tell my Girl Scouts and friends when we were hiking, traveling, camping or were, well…lost. Lost is a state of mind, a temporary situation that occurs when you’re getting your bearings. There IS a way out of where you are, YOU just don’t know it yet. For instance, if I’m on my way to a new place I use my GPS so I don’t “get lost.” Getting lost simply means you don’t the way yet. Once a friend …