It's so exciting to be able to welcome all of you into our first official days of Spring! I know, I know... it maybe still feels like Winter, but actually the energy now has transitioned into Spring. This Full Moon signifies the onset of the Chinese New Year and...
For those of you who follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you have been watching my excitement growing as VDAY approaches and One Billion women will RISE up! One Billion Rising is an organization that is promoting a celebration of women rising up against violence on...
Two nights ago and yesterday, and today and forever before me...it is about being fully present with each breath. My Mother was scheduled to go in for surgery to correct a surgery that had been to correct another surgery, etc. that was supposed to take place this...
At the insistence of those close to me and persistence of their requests, I am now making available to you my Mama Monologue from the Writing Mamas group when I spoke at the Corte Madera, CA Book Passage in November of 2010. It's a great story of the depths of the...
...da da dum de dum dum (Eminem's Lose Yourself) Summer can mean so many things in our heart. I believe we can all close our eyes and recall a warm summer day, maybe hot with some teenage pop song that lays the emotionality and beat as the back drop for how our...
For some of you, it’s running, some walking, some going to the gym…the cycling class, zumba, pilates…for me it’s pretty much yoga. I like to swim and cycle, hike and even tai chi and belly dancing also, but there’s just nothing like a good yoga class. I love all...
(Note to reader - I wrote this at the end of March, just before Easter, but my fellow Mother Rising crew voted I post it and share even if Estara's official season has past. Hope you enjoy!) There are so many layers of discovery that our lives hold. Everything...
Several months after having moved into my new apartment in Tiburon, I had returned from a trip to Ikea, another venture in furnishing my new lovely home. I sat washing the recently purchased kitchen items. I felt a warmth of happiness resound through me as...
It wasn’t my idea. I have to give credit to a friend in my women’s circle, Tami. She was sharing one evening that when things got all blocked up with traffic and she and the her children were stuck in the car, their solution was to pull out bubbles and blow them...
I had been sleeping for months on an inflatable mattress on the floor of a small room that had once been the office of my ex-grandfather in law. I had carved it out as my office in a desperate struggle to find something in the house that was mine. The room appeared...
