It’s not you. It’s me.

Thank you so much for your supportive words last week as I shared about grief and the creative process (or, at least, my creative process). This week will be especially […]

Lately + End Self-Defeat

Lately + End Self-Defeat

So, it struck me last week that while I feel that I’ve moved through some parts of the grief of losing my mom, there are other ways where I still […]

seeing the light!

seeing the light!

Every spring, our Circle de Luz hijas train to run the CPCC Skyline 5k in an event we call Run Big Dream Big.  The race is a way for them […]

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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 […]