Personal challenges: We all have them! What personal challenges are you facing today?  Do you have a sick child and you must work? Are you in a nasty divorce that is dragging you down and still you try to put on a happy face at work? Is someone you love dying and you...

The Situation: Good Girls sacrifice themselves to rescue others from their feelings and this sacrifice costs them. Years ago, I was dissatisfied with my haircut.  I wanted something different, and my current stylist, Jane, tried but couldn’t deliver. A friend...

Greetings! I hope this message finds you safe and healthy! I'm in a book club that's so good I want to share it with you. The Markaz Review Book Club meets once a month to discuss fiction or non fiction books related to Middle Easterners and Africans. There is rich...

Dear Women Friends, I am thinking of you and how the world needs your brilliance, your genius, your guidance, your “know how,” and your love in 2022. This is the year of the Water Tiger in the Chinese Horoscope and I hear this means that it is a year to “go for it”...

In the morning, I go to my spiritual space, a repurposed section of my formal living room, and open the blinds which I closed the night before as the darkness approached. No half-mast to for me. I pull them to the top of the six-foot windows. My mother did the same in...

Happy Holidays! I wish you and your families a break with time to do what you want. Time for renewal and revitalization is essential to starting the New Year with vitality. However, at this time of the year, many women I know...

“We almost called you this week. We had a terrible meeting and knew you could help us debrief.”  This line was the opener of a meeting with two of my female colleagues who are in business together. “I’m so sorry. What happened?” I asked. Jane, my colleague, friend,...

In the Fall, as the air cools and the bird chorus sings, we begin planning for our trip to the beach in Montauk, New York.  My husband gets his fishing equipment together and I get my coloring books and fashion magazines, and we make the drive in one day starting...

Welcome to my new website - barriezucal.com. I am still in the process of building it. But look around and let me know what you think! Thanks!