Many of you know from my last two blog posts (Love + Devastation and The End + The Beginning) that I just lost my dad. I am just beginning the healing process and I realize that I don’t even really know what to expect—I’ve never been through this before, not such a major loss. I’m…

If you read my blog post from last week (Love + Devastation from May 9, 2013), you’ll know that my father has been very ill with Stage 4 Stomach Cancer. Thank you so much for the prayers, support, love, kind words, and warm thoughts. It really meant a lot to me. It helps. As I…

I wrote a while back of my worry for Molly, my 13 year-old, when she was going through her unexplained headaches (Sitting with Molly from March 22, 2013). Thank you to all for your concerns and well-wishes. We never really figured it out but Molly has recovered fully, with help from Acupuncture and CranioSacral Therapy. Thank god….

When I catch myself thinking that same thought again… and again. You know, that thought that keeps going around and around in my head, the one that brings me nowhere new. The one that just makes me feel sad, or angry, or defeated. The one that does nothing to open me up to the possibilities…

I am a recovering frenzied-pace addict. For many, many years I would engage in trying to get it “all” done (see my post, The Neverending To-do List). I would convince myself that as soon as I got this one last thing done I would be freed up to move at a much more sane pace….

My brand new website launched this past Monday. I’m so excited, so proud of it. I love it! Except. It’s the second website I launched within five months. Crazy, right? So here’s the thing. I loved my last website. It was beautiful and had a message that was (is still) important to me: The more…

It’s late and I’m tired. It’s been a long, hard week. It’s important to me to get my blog post written but I’m just starting now. And did I mention, it’s late and I’m tired. Shit. I’ve got a dilemma. I want to write a post, it’s definitely a priority, but I also want to…

A video blog post today about choosing peace over the almighty to-do list. The Neverending To-do List from Tanya Cole-Lesnick on Vimeo.

When I was a little girl I used to fantasize about all the places I knew I’d find joy when I grew up. Like vacationing on a beautiful beach of white sand and blue water. Or taking a romantic carriage ride around Central Park with the unbelievably handsome and charming man in my life. Like…

The blog post I’m writing today is not the one I had intended to write. I had something else all planned out and was doing my day-before-writing percolating when I decided to switch gears. You see, my 13 year-old, Molly, has not been well over the past couple of weeks (unexplained headaches that we’re in…