Making Friends With Patience
Enough
I went radio silent last week. No newsletter, no blog post, no social media. I had been so bombarded with the entire internet screaming about black Friday, Cyber Monday and the nonstop election drama, I just couldn’t stomach being there. Or adding even one more thing into the mix. (Even the anti-consumerism folks wanted…
Polite Conversation
It’s nearly Thanksgiving, which happens to be my favorite holiday. My best friend and I have been excitedly planning the menu for weeks. I always enjoy a surprise, non-traditional dish, but I’m not disclosing until dinner. (The suspense is killing you, I know.) Thankfully, I’ll be in a completely conflict-free zone. The only possibility…
Quitting and Beginning
The Tyranny of MINE
Shattering Limits
Dearest One, I wrote a book in 12 days. Not a skimpy, pamphlet-like self-help book, but a start-to-finish novel of 288 pages (for the writing inclined – 62,000 words) with a spine-tingling connection to the characters in my previous novel. The story came to me in a series of dreams. Out of nowhere. During a…
A Bouncy Life
Dearest One, In a recent interview, I spoke about resilience being akin to walking through life on a trampoline world, as opposed to each step sinking us deeper into quicksand. I started thinking (while bouncing on my mini trampoline) about bounciness and joy. Why is it that when we move through our lives feeling…
Everything’s Fine. Or Is It?
Want to listen, instead of read? Here you go… Dearest One, Have you ever found yourself saying, through gritted teeth, “Everything’s fine.” Me too. Even when everything is absolutely.not.fine. Mine comes from a feeling that the person who is asking is not really asking, or that anything other than fine isn’t acceptable. As women, we…
Take Me to the Sun
Alone Together
Dearest one, I came to terms with my tendency towards being solitary many, many years ago (after a brief but frenzied period of forced extroversion). I embrace this aspect of my personality in the same way I do my brown eyes, or my round bottom (which has surprisingly become super trendy. Who knew?). It is…