by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Feb 17, 2016 | Inspiration, Productivity
I’m back from a long/short/crazy trip of fun and work and I’m feeling the burn of overwhelm. Traveling, in general, is a great way to knock you entirely off your routine and make you spend days trying to claw back to the careful balance you had...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Sep 14, 2015 | Business, Inspiration
Baby Lucia is getting big. And, in one of her “I’m a big girl now” activities, she is all about the running. But it’s not just any old running. It’s running while yelling. We call it the Yell and Run and it’s about as complex as it...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Jul 21, 2014 | Business, Inspiration, Productivity
We’ve all felt it. The overburdened overwork of a life gone mad. The week where everything and the cat got away from you, and all the kids and all the work and all the papers went out the window screaming and crying and huffing and puffing and making you blue in the...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Dec 26, 2011 | Inspiration
I was at my parents house earlier in the month for dinner. As usual, we said grace before the meal. As not usual, my father said he had a “new” reading he wanted to use for the blessing. “I heard it today,” he told us. If you know anything...
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Nov 16, 2011 | Inspiration
I think we like to complicate things when it is really quite simple; find what it is that makes you happy and who it is that makes you happy and you’re set. promise. image credit
by Claire Diaz-Ortiz | Oct 9, 2011 | Inspiration, Uncategorized
“Poets, like the blind, can see in the dark.” Jorge Luis Borges I swear I posted this last week. (But, apparently, I didn’t.) My husband showed me this video recently and I was (as usual) in tears when poignant music and heart-wrenching topics...