Welcome to my long OVERDUE new website. The original Comfortqueen.com launched in May 2000 and although we made changes along the way, for the last three years, it was dated, riddled with broken links, and no longer reflected me. People would report broken links and ask where the e-cards went or that they missed the [...]

The New York Times Sunday magazine did a cover piece this weekend on the falling birth rate in Europe. While my reaction was mostly, “Isn’t this basically good news? Isn’t overpopulation still one of the main strains on our human survival?” the part that made me chortle and sigh was the broad and deeper reason [...]

In this week’s newsletter, I posed the questions: Darling, sweetie, honey baby, what one habit would feel really delightful this week? What one habit or practice or choice would feel as supportive as a personal chef, assistant, and massage therapist all rolled into one? What do I want to do to support myself? Now what in the heck are my answers? Hmmm… [...]

I’m afraid to blog. I know, that’s sounds a bit absurd but I have been missing writing in this format for months and although I’ve told myself, “Wait until your sabbatical is officially over June 1st” and “Wait until the new blog is up at Comfortqueen.com so you don’t have to import any more text” [...]

I’m a Frito Bandito… Just had to write that. I’m dating myself! I needed to write to CONNECT. I miss our conversations and yet I feel our connection, us creative thinking heart women webbed around the world, opening and closing with the tide of life. I’M STILL ALIVE and I’m actually, well, great. And good. Certainly stronger. More even-keeled. Learning heaps. [...]

My friend Michael Neill’s new book Feel Happy Now! is out in the U.S. and it’s a must have. I am friends with Michael, true, but he was a coaching client first and then a friend, and he’s a friend because he’s kind, incredibly smart, and dedicated to making good information that really helps people [...]

I didn’t know this but on September 2007 when I declared a nine-month retreat — sabbatical, what I was really declaring was, “Where do I go when now that I’ve gotten to the end of my dreams?” At the time, my dreams seemed fine, thank you very much, but as I moved into less and less doing, [...]

“Where do you go when you get to the end of your dreams?” Dan Fogelberg I was on hold with my local clinic about my big toe – which stubbornly is not healing*—when I realized I was [...]