Author Archives: Ellen

Dear Girlfriends, As I continued on the path of my reboot, I realized another gift: The insight that receiving is a form of giving. For me, giving has always been easier than receiving. Perhaps, it’s because in order to receive you have to succumb to the reality that you need help, and then you have to humble yourself to accept …

Dear Girlfriends, I wish I could tell you that I immediately recognized the blessing of my diagnosis. But I didn’t. My thick blonde shoulder-length hair was disappearing before my eyes. As my dear friend and stylist shaved my head, she cried as I read scripture. Eventually I would lose my eyebrows and eyelashes. In those days of transfiguration, the blessing …

Dear Girlfriends, There are moments in time that change the course of your life forever and although they may be different, everyone experiences a ‘life-altering’ moment sooner or later. You. Me. Ellen. I’m not Ellen. But, like Ellen, my life was recently rebooted and she invited me to share my story with you. At first I embraced my reboot as …

“Unless our lives are interrupted by an uncommon means, we tend to keep up business as usual. We need to be interrupted.” Will and Lisa Samson, Justice in the Burbs Dear Girlfriends, While there were other significant and deeply personal awakenings as the result of “the boot”, the last that I would like to share with you is the amazing …

Dear Girlfriends, I sometimes worry that I come off to my new readers as a Puritan. If you haven’t followed my blog for any amount of time or read my book you might not be aware of my struggle with “other gods”. My vice is fashion; my idol is Jimmy Choo; my den of iniquity: Neiman Marcus. Now that I’ve …

Dear Girlfriends, One of the more interesting aspects of being lamed was the affect my injury had on my daily routine. Typically in the gym by 6:40 am each day – I found myself now sitting in my home office staring out the window.

Dear Girlfriends, There are few things more frustrating than having your computer crash or lock up. For me, it seems to occur when I’m either working on a very complex project or on a tight deadline but it always seems to happen when a huge project is due tomorrow! The interruption to my workflow and process is met with an …