Unveiling My Vanity

Unveiling My Vanity: Beauty and the Eye of the Beholder By Kathryn Dixon Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all? So many of us find ourselves unwittingly in perpetual search for how we can look better: sharper, sexier, trimmer, stronger, more...

Happier Holidays

Happier Holidays Question your unruly expectations and let the holidays renew you. Dec 05 By Kathryn Dixon  It’s that time of year again. “Ho-ho-ho” and all of that. Tradition calls us to treasure the winter holidays, but more and more these days,...

I Of The Hurricane

Silver Linings: I of the Hurricane Examining what you believe about Katrina can change your disaster response Oct 05  By Kathryn Dixon Hurricane Katrina brought all of us to our knees — even the unsinkable Bush Administration. Why don’t we plan for the...

Finding Happily Ever After

Silver Linings: Finding Happily Ever After, Once and For All Why is it that so often the “match made in heaven” doesn’t seem to fare so well here on Earth? Sept 05 By Kathryn Dixon I don’t know about you, but ever since I saw Walt...

Good People Always Say Yes

Silver Linings: Good People Always Say Yes And other preposterous notions Aug 05 By Kathryn Dixon Yes. It’s such a nice word. Yes: the apparent gateway to the getting and giving of things that make life brighter and better for everyone. It’s definitely the...

Furors And Forgiveness

Silver Linings: Furors and Forgiveness Examining the concepts of error and forgiveness April 05 By Kathryn Dixon Forgiveness. At times, we all want it and seek desperately to earn it. Sometimes we move in heartfelt striving to give it, even when we think it might cost...

Trusting The Truth

Doing The Work: Trusting the Truth How to answer the questions you hate to hear Mar 05  By Kathryn Dixon Some questions that come up in life just make my stomach turn — How much do you weigh? How many times have you been married? Have you ever been fired? You...

A Tidal Wave Of Trust

Silver Linings: A Tidal Wave of Trust Finding inner peace when faced with forces of nature The catastrophes and casualties from the earthquake and tsunami in Asia have shocked and saddened every nation. How are we supposed to wrap our minds around a disaster so...

Resolve or Release?

Silver Linings: Resolve or Release? Do “The Turnaround” to ease post-resolution qualms Most of us have our annual lists of New Year’s resolutions written down somewhere. Or, if we weren’t quite that diligent, our good intentions float around in...

Healing The George Within

Silver Linings: Transformation in the Aftermath Healing the George within By Kathryn Dixon Here we all sit, smack dab in the middle of the unthinkable. Preposterous. Devastating. Infuriating. Terrifying. Now what? How in the world can this country–even this...