by Gail Heney | May 4, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
I usually experience the energetic surge to evaluate, purge and stretch my comfort zone in the fall. September is my New Year – characterized by the compulsion to examine my clothes closet, my bookshelves, my waistline and the files taking space in my mind. All... 
by Gail Heney | Apr 6, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
I know more people, including myself, who have had one of the covid variants, or currently have it, than at any other time during the two-year pandemic. This is coinciding with the end of mask mandates, the opening of all social and event venues with no capacity... 
by Gail Heney | Feb 23, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
For most of my life, I have been a woman of action. With barely a mention, I show up to move furniture, make a meal, take a walk, paint a wall. I am comfortable in the kitchen, on the trail, or at bedside, rubbing moisturizer into the scaly, dry skin of an ailing... 
by Gail Heney | Feb 16, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
There was a time in my life, not so long ago, when any activity or sport that didn’t instigate a rush of adrenaline, an oxygen deficit or an opportunity to test my limits of speed, was deemed to be boring – likely for old people. As I check my bank account for a... 
by Gail Heney | Jan 19, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
Having stated my intention to be curious rather than judgemental, I find myself in a dilemma about what I am sensing and observing. I am concluding that in our western culture, at least the rendition of it that is my world, Darwin’s theory of “survival of the fittest”... 
by Gail Heney | Dec 29, 2021 | FEATURING ENGAGE
The other night at the dinner table the conversation pivoted from benign sharing to a discussion about judgment. I thought she’d put on a few pounds, uttered in the isolation bubble of our festive table, about an actress, triggered a dive into body shaming and sexism....