The birds they sang At the break of day Start again I heard them say Don’t dwell on what has passed away Or what is yet to be ~Leonard Cohen, Anthem I’ve been having a lot of lucid dreams lately. In most of them, I am wandering about some liminal space, those physical spaces […]
“Do not seek for things to happen the way you want them to; rather, wish that what happens happens the way it happens.” ~Epictetus I was sitting in a cafe, writing. To the left of my laptop was my phone, face up in case someone called. To my right was a latte, my favorite […]
I slowed the car and looked again at the acrylic sign outside the gas station. What the hell is a position5? It took a second to realize that they had run out of letter S’s and used a number 5 instead. Oh, I thought. Speedway is hiring. I wondered if the inverted exclamation mark was […]
“Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants.” ~author and food activist Michael Pollan In 2016, I published a book titled Sensible Wellness for Women. In it, my co-author Andra and I discussed our approach to finding more health, wholeness, and happiness in our lives by making small changes to our mindfulness, diet, exercise, […]
Photo by Diego Mora Barrantes on Unsplash “What have we done with innocence? It disappeared with time, it never made much sense.” ~David Grohl, Monkey Wrench My brother Ian and I have a long-standing argument about Dave Grohl’s most important musical contribution. I vote for Nirvana, while Ian maintains the Foo Fighters are […]
Some years ask questions and some years yield answers. 2020 and 2021 were questioning years. Not just because of the pandemic, though that certainly colored my experiences. But because it was a 24-month mental illness crisis in my house. It was two years of online therapy, panic attacks, can’t-get-out-of-bed depression, and med trials that made […]
