As published in Sixty and Me It’s rare that you have time to measure your life and take your personal growth temperture. Self-reflection is a considered a luxury these days instead of a necessity. You rush from pillar to post and the minutes tick by until the end of the day when you literally fall […]
Vulnerability and the Art of Family Maintenance
As published in The Huffington Post, January 6, 2015 I was walking the dogs with my daughter-in-law while on our family’s winter ski vacation, and we happened on a discussion of the three most serious stressors in life. In the freezing afternoon, as the sun and the barometer were dipping, Carli and I were trying […]
Living With Swag
Last weekend I was buying shoes for one of my grandchildren – the 4 year old – and he said to me, “Hey, Gran, I’m getting new shoes with swag.” I looked at my son cluelessly and asked, “What’s swag?” “Mom, don’t you know swag?” he asked incredulously. “It means stylish and all that goes […]
Don’t Settle For Less: Dine On Caviar
Last week the New York Times had an interview with Gloria Steinem on the occasion of her 80th birthday. When asked if she had any regrets, she said: “It’s not that I would do anything different. It’s that I’d do things faster.” When Ms Steinem, one of my role models, candidly wished she would have […]
10 Ways to Measure Your Life (as published in The Huffington Post)
This is a blog that was published in the Huffington Post, March 30, 2014 Joan Moran: 10 Ways To Measure Your Life It’s rare that you have time to reflect on your life. Self-reflection is a considered a luxury these days instead of a necessity. You rush from pillar to post and the minutes tick […]
Kick Butt Every Day
I was talking to my bestest friend today and we both said the same thing at the same time: Kick Butt Every Day and give that day the best of who you are. We were drinking our TGIF margaritas after I gave him a tango lesson as is our usual ritual at the end of the […]
Lessons My Mother Taught Me For Lifelong Vitality
Texas Women In Business, a business group in Austin, Texas, provided me the opportunity to present a program on lessons my mother taught me for lifelong vitality. I have always been truly inspired by my amazing mother, Estelle Moran. Estelle lived a fully creative and empowering life. My mother taught me many lessons throughout my […]
The Power of Intention
Given all that I have attempted to learn in my long life, all that I have hopefully learned, all that I have applied to my life’s path to a greater or less extent, there have been two most important precepts that I keep close to me: the first is that living in the present, in […]