
Give Yourself a Damn Break
Do you ever have the kind of week where you ask yourself what evil karma you must have perpetrated in some other life so as to deserve such a shower of bullshit to be rained down upon you?
I've just come off a couple of wild-ass--WTF weeks…

Using Crisis as an Opportunity to Regroup
As trite as this is going to sound, I have to say it:
Every crisis is an opportunity. To rethink. To assess. To Regroup. To change.
As this pandemic unfolds, we have seen the inequities and broken systems of government, society, and even community,…

Aretha Franklin’s Tough Choices
on the Way to Success
I was heartbroken to learn of Aretha Franklin's death yesterday. It was the kind of loss you feel based on some wish that I'd had a chance to get to know her. Like now the (irrational) opportunity was definitely gone. I've always kind of seen…
on the Way to Success

How to Deal When Someone You Dislike Wins
Have you ever experienced something like this: Someone you can't stand gets a win.
You know them to be a [fraud/asshole/full-of-shit/fake/abusive/condescending/fill-in-the-blank nasty trait] and yet they won an award, or got a big client,…

How do you save the world while still keeping your own family safe, fed, and cared for?
This week we watched the long-awaited Incredibles 2 and it got me thinking about what will it take to change things in our world, and our own lives.
Fourteen years after the original film, I wondered how this new addition would be different.…

First Hand Perspectives: Mental Health Awareness for the Other 11 Months of the Year
Yesterday marked the last day of May and with it the final day of Mental Health Awareness month. And while I'm glad there's a month for it, the reality is that folks struggling with, or affected by mental health issues, or mental illness, or…

When it’s Time to Step Out of Line
The other day I walked into a Starbucks to grab a drink. The line wasn't bad, but the four people in it made an awkward formation parallel, rather than perpendicular to the front door. I thought it was odd that they weren’t queued up toward…

Thoughts on Gratitude for Those Who’ve Been (or are going) Through Hell
A few years back I stood up in front of my aunts, uncles, cousins, children, parent, grandparent, and extended family at the Thanksgiving table and volunteered to say the dinner prayer. I didn't usually volunteer for something like that.…

What to Do When You Feel Like Nothing is Working
Does this happen to you? You’re doing something new, pursuing a new goal or change and it feels like NOTHING is working. Here are some ways this has shown up for me:
I’m pitching or submitting writing all over, but all I hear are crickets…

What if There’s a Refuge Built Right Inside Every Human Being?
This week I listened to an episode of the On Being podcast that made me reconsider how we humans survive trauma or hardship.
Krista Tippett's interview with poet John O'Donohue was profound. I found myself rewinding and replaying segments that…