Friendship and love were two consistent factors in highly functional marriages.
The Year of the Masks
If only I could hold my anxiety as gently as I hold a precious child, if I could put my worries to sleep, nestle them in the soft sheets?
If only I could hold my anxiety as gently as I hold a precious child, if I could put my worries to sleep, nestle them in the soft sheets?
What if We Can’t Control the Uncontrollable?
It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes.
It is possible to induce incorrect notions of cause and effect in most people in just a few minutes.
The Table Was Piled With Pieces of Myself
Marie Kondo says when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.
Marie Kondo says when we really delve into the reasons for why we can’t let something go, there are only two: an attachment to the past or a fear for the future.
16 Things We Can Do in Our 50’s That We Couldn’t in Our 20’s
Thomas Bailey Aldrich says, to keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
Thomas Bailey Aldrich says, to keep the heart unwrinkled, to be hopeful, kindly, cheerful, reverent that is to triumph over old age.
What Is That Incessant Ticking?
Most people don’t grow up. Most people age.
Most people don’t grow up. Most people age.
I’m Dreaming of the Life I Once Loved
I’m feeling a very human response to all this isolation; I’m anxious and slightly depressed.
I’m feeling a very human response to all this isolation; I’m anxious and slightly depressed.
Impermanence Is Here to Stay
Sometimes I wake up and have no idea where I am.
Sometimes I wake up and have no idea where I am.
Lives Under Construction
The odd thing is when it’s quiet you know there’s trouble brewing, that’s when you jump up and rush the tranquility.
The odd thing is when it’s quiet you know there’s trouble brewing, that’s when you jump up and rush the tranquility.
What Happens at the Lake
[Trigger warning, this post contains graphic accounts of spiders and snakes].
Trigger warning, this post contains graphic accounts of spiders and snakes.
Too Much Time on Our Hands
There is also a thing about balancing how you spend your precious time.
There is also a thing about balancing how you spend your precious time.
Is My Husband Wearing a Headband?
So this quarantine is taking us places we never thought we’d go.
So this quarantine is taking us places we never thought we’d go.
The Art of Distraction
I’m a little traumatized by all the powerful changes occurring in my life, but hey, we could all use a little luck.
I’m a little traumatized by all the powerful changes occurring in my life, but hey, we could all use a little luck.
Listening and Learning
Am I ready to look at the part I play in the current reality, come out from the safety of the suburbs, and confront my own racism?
Am I ready to look at the part I play in the current reality, come out from the safety of the suburbs, and confront my own racism?
‘How You Doing?’
The only thing doing well is COVID-19.
The only thing doing well is COVID-19.
Can I Tell You About My Day?
By midday, I had written extra strength Tylenol on the grocery list three times.
By midday, I had written extra strength Tylenol on the grocery list three times.