The Grasshopper Was Right

Written By: Erin Smith

June 9, 2021

My daughter adjusts the visor, her eyes now shaded but the streaks of sunlight still washing the ends of her hair a burnished gold. Her hands grip ten and two, polish chipped from playing her guitar. She turns up Taylor Swift and she turns into our street. Taylor croons,   Can’t not think of all […]

Hope Molecules

Written By: Erin Smith

May 30, 2021

  “Movement is joy and movement isn’t just about weight loss.” ~Kelly McGonigal, PhD In 2019, I attended a women’s business conference where I took classes in integrated marketing and ways to promote a small business in a digital world. I still get emails from many of the groups that were specific to drumming up […]

Black Mirror

Written By: Erin Smith

May 24, 2021

In 1992, I spent sophomore year of college abroad in England studying at Regent’s College. One weekend, my roommate and I decided we would take the train to the northern Lake District to visit Hill Top Farm, the lovely cottage where Beatrix Potter wrote The Tale of Peter Rabbit, and then bike to nearby Lake […]

Six Minutes to a Better Brain

Written By: Erin Smith

May 13, 2021

You know how, after finishing an especially great book, you miss the characters as if they were real people in your life? That happened to me after reading Kristin Hannah’s 2008 bestseller Firefly Lane. Tully and Kate, the two protagonists of the story, were as real to me as my three best friends from college. […]

Adding By Taking Away

Written By: Erin Smith

May 13, 2021

  “A great piece of art is composed not just of what is in the final piece, but equally important, what is not. It is the discipline to discard what does not fit … that distinguishes the truly exceptional artist and marks the ideal piece of work, be it a symphony, a novel, a painting, […]

Dawn

Written By: Erin Smith

May 4, 2021

  All humans realize they are loved when witnessing the dawn; early morning is the triumph of good over evil. Absolved by light we decide to go on. ~Rufus Wainwright   Before Zeus governed Olympus, the cosmos was ruled by the Titans. These gods were the children and grandchildren of the primordial deities Uranus, who […]