What I Plan to Keep from 2020
2020 has been a challenging year for reasons I don’t need to rehash. Instead, I’ll focus on the positive things gained over the year, the things I’d like to keep with me beyond 2020.
Category Archives: Challenges
Sitting with Discomfort
It is exactly in times like this–pandemic, political turmoil, racial tensions–that we need to learn how to sit with our feelings of discomfort.
Using Your Asshole Moments to Cultivate Compassion
Have you ever been an asshole? Ha, what a ridiculous question. Of course you have. We all have our moments, right? Do you think back on those moments and wince? […]
Survival Mode in the Winter Sickness Sinkhole
We’ve been sick for weeks now. It’s time to give myself a break and just SURVIVE until Spring is here!
Five Years of Grief and Getting On
From the moment that I stood in the receiving line at the wake–watching shocked face after shocked face go by, grasping their hands, hugging them–I somehow felt like I was the one […]
the self-styled life 