Spiral Dynamics and the Matriarch

This is an excerpt from the book, Boots: A thousand Miles on Foot and on Life, which will be published in the fall. In the book, I’m getting ready to board a plane to Geneva, Switzerland to hike around the base of Mont Blanc. The topic of Spiral Dynamics became more meaningful for me during…

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Well Built Relationships are like Dry Stone Fences

This book excerpt will be published in Fall 2021 in Boots: A Thousand Miles on Foot and on Life. I’m walking from the Irish Sea to the North Sea, coast to coast. across England and just spent the night at a farmhouse in Yorkshire Dales National Park, an area known for its dry-stones fences: The…

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What is a Matriarch?

The simple definition of a matriarch is that she is a powerful, influential woman in a community or family. Traditionally, being a matriarch is the last stage of a woman’s life. It comes after she has completed the day-to-day work and decision-making of being a mother which has now been taken up by the next…

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