Tuning out the noise
I was driving an eighth-grade girl I mentored home from lunch. Passing by the university where I teach, I pointed it out to her. “What do you teach?” she asked, […]
There is no perfect. There is no imperfect.
Quick… name the opposite. Dark… Tall… Can lightness exist if there is no darkness? Can tall exist if no one is short? Continuums can only exist if there is a […]
it is not about the cupcake
As has become tradition here on the blog, every Valentine’s Day, I tell the same story. It’s the story of one of the biggest fights in my marriage to BF. […]
Lately
There are some things that I’ve really enjoyed lately– from reading, to eating, to using, and I thought I’d share some of them with you this week in case you […]
To Accept: a verb list to support your journey.
I stopped when I saw it. It was a blue poster with infinitive verbs on it prominently displayed in the McColl Center’s Innovation Institute classroom where I was taking a […]
Penning your own prescription.
Like many women and young people in general, I didn’t grow up learning much about self-care. What I did know how to do was everything. All the time. I knew […]
Word up
It happens every year. The new year comes and we feel compelled to write a long list of goals for the year (or resolutions, if you will). Week 1 […]
Setting up 2016 to be the year of answered questions
2015. It was a year that posed so many questions for me. How will I live without my mother? How do I honor her legacy? What will I do for […]
