Dream Big Stories
Last updated on July 17th, 2026 at 12:59 pmI started my first blog in 2003, back in the dinosaur days of dial-up internet when the online world still felt like the Wild West. Meeting someone you knew from the internet made your family think you’d completely lost your mind. Starting a blog was exciting. The idea that anyone could publish…
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Have you ever had a week where your dream goal seems to jump up and bite you in the butt? As part of my fitness dream goals I committed to getting my certification. Like most dreamers I may have piled way too much on my plate. For the past 10 months I’ve been coaching at Santa Rosa Fit Body Boot…
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How to be a funnier motivational speaker on stage Okay, so technically friends can’t make you funny – but they can help you find what you already do that makes you funny. And often you can take that to the stage. Let me give you an example. I asked my mother to tell me the funniest thing that I do….
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Happy Thankful Thursday dreamers! This week I’m sharing some great news about practicing gratitude and how it can make you rich. According to Science Codex, a team of researchers from Northeastern University, the University of California, Riverside, and Harvard Kennedy School conducted a research study on gratitude and found that feelings of gratitude can automatically reduce financial impatience. In the…
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Today’s blog will deviate a bit from healing with photography. This is a more personal blog about appreciating the beauty we all take for granted when we’re young. I’m a military brat. We moved around so much we never planted roots. We usually didn’t have friends we grew up with. So it’s extremely rare to keep friends through various duty…
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I will be moving back to my favorite city – San Francisco! – later this summer. In celebration of finding happiness in returning to the “City of My Heart,” I am sharing here a favorite essay that I wrote in March 2007 for the Noe Valley Voice in SF.