The World Awaits
The end of the year is always a good time to take inventory of our lives. The winter season cues us, giving us dark days perfect for introspection. Now is our time to turn inward, re-kindle our inner flame, so that when we go outward, we have a bright light to share with the people [...]
My Seat at the Summit, Part II
It came at the end of my first day at the Social Good Summit: “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” A quote from my all-time favorite quotable person, Albert Einstein, and a wake-up moment at the Summit. I’d contemplated this quote often and had [...]
My Seat at the Summit, Part I
Walking into the 92Y in Manhattan on day one of the Social Good Summit, I feel a new kind of buzz. Admittedly, it’s partially induced by the newness of donning heels and blazer and blogger status, credentials swaying as I step into a whole new endeavor. But truly, this buzz is about being a part [...]
To Serve
You are a globally minded and engaged woman. You want to make a difference in the world. You want to create social change. You want to live a life of deep purpose and feel connected. How? How do you get there? How do you do it? How do you take your current life circumstances and [...]
Riding my mustang to Rio+20
I arrived in 2012 on a wild mustang, bucking tradition. Now this may not sound like an easy thing to do, but let me tell you, it is much easier than how I’d entered previous years: holding on tightly to the reins of life. It was when I tried to control life that I got [...]
Revelations in Paradise
The conditions are good. Sun is shining. Clouds float effortlessly over the greenest, most beautiful mountains I’ve ever seen. Waves beat rhythmically as they roll onto shore. Breeze blows through all the lush greenery and everything slow dances to the song of the ocean. Call it perfect, these conditions. I ought to produce a lovely [...]
Why Celebrate International Women’s Day?
“How do you celebrate International Women’s Day?” If someone had asked me that question a few years ago, my silence would have been so absolute they’d have heard crickets. What is International Women’s Day? Depending on the region, International Women’s Day, celebrated on March 8, can serve either as a gesture of love and [...]
Go Girl, Slow Girl
I want a life lived. Like you, fellow Go Girls, I am an adventurer and a collector of stories. If life is play then I want to be a player. I’m made to be in the thick of it, of being out there, gathering and weaving experience. And yet I admit it: while I’m all [...]
A cycle of seven celebration
I turned thirty-five this year, and it felt bigger and more potent than any other birthday. Eighteen has nothing on thirty-five! It’s the seven-year cycle thing. I was ending a cycle and coming up on my next seven. You know what I’m talking about, right? Cycles of seven have been noted by cultures the world [...]
Carrie lives in a coastal town in north Florida where she enjoys the unhurried rhythm and swims in the deep conversations of life. A lover of words and freedom, her writing reflects an openness to the unknown and the unexpected. Drawing from the essence of her own experiences, she furthers global awareness by connecting her story to the universal story, using childbirth in particular as a metaphor for what wants to emerge in the world. While travel is always calling, she focuses on who she is becoming rather than where she will be going next. A former elementary school teacher, Carrie also has a fierce passion for preserving childhood as a magical stage of unfolding and is the co-author of A Child’s Way: Slowing Down for Goodness Sake.