If you die tomorrow, your job will be posted before your obituary. ~an online meme More Americans have left their jobs in the last four months than at any other time in our history. 4.3 million people quit in August alone. Economists have dubbed this era the Great Resignation. For more than half of […]
The time has come to put our stones down. For hands clutching stones can’t freely drum. And hearts fisting the past can’t fully sing. ~Mark Nepo I laid my cheek against the tile, looking for a spot to cool my fevered brow. Curled into a fetal position on the bathroom floor, I awaited […]
My mom spent her summers in Breathitt County with her double first cousins, which happens when two siblings marry two siblings. The resulting kids share every relative except parents and, even though she is technically from Winchester, my mother considers the mountains her home. When I was little, we would drive back to visit the […]
We gotta get outside more. Our prehistoric brains aren’t coping too well in our modern technological world. Homo Sapiens have been around now for about 200,000 years. And until about 5,000 years ago, we were hunter gatherers, wandering the land in clans. The first civilizations – where we stayed in one place, more or […]
Me talk pretty one day. ~David Sedaris When I was in Ms. Moberly’s first grade class at Providence Elementary, I was sent “out to the trailer” for a speech assessment. At age 7, I still hadn’t mastered the articulation of the letter r, substituting a w sound instead. Problematic when your first, middle, and […]
If you read my weekly musings, then you’ve gleaned that my family is going through a lot right now. I had a writing professor at Centre who always preached, “Never write it while you’re in it.” I keep thinking – hoping, praying – that this time of strife will end in a wiser, more resilient […]
