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? […]
Tag Archives: Grief
Hallelujah, Jeff Buckley, and Human Achievement as Collaboration
Whatever I thought I was going to write is now gone. As I sit here, the song “Hallelujah”–the Jeff Buckley version–is playing. Even over the hisses and whizzes of the […]
Book Review: “Wild” by Cheryl Strayed
The at times scorching, at times freezing, frequently wet and always heavy surface of Cheryl Strayed’s memoir Wild is enough to be engaging: a hapless, amateur hiker taking on one […]
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 […]
Why I’m Signing the SEEK Safely Promise
A big push at SEEK Safely, the non-profit organization my family began in response to my sister’s death at a self-help event, has been getting the self-help industry to adopt the […]
the self-styled life 