One of my students recently shared something that perfectly demonstrates how our brains work. She’s taking a creative writing class that she absolutely loves. Before each class, she’ll spend hours editing her work and reading it repeatedly. She’ll...
A barrage of minor stressors had left me tightly wound by last Friday. I needed to unwind. But instead of automatically reaching for my iPad, I opted for an old-fashioned kind of quiet. I picked up a memoir I had abandoned months ago and finally started reading again....
It happened yet again this Spring morning. I was on a Zoom with a brilliant Ph.D. candidate. This is someone who manages a corporate department by day and writes about socio-economic shifts by night. She leaned into the camera like she was about to confess a serious...
“…with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees…I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again…” – F. Scott Fitzgerald There is something about the return of the spring light and the sudden...
Last weekend, I decided it was time for some spring cleaning. Not the overly ambitious “empty every closet in the house” kind of cleaning. Just a broad-stroke reset after a long winter. I cleared a stack of papers that had been quietly growing on my desk and organized...
