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....
“…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...
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh Energy changes as you get older. It simply does. Do you remember when you used to start your night at 9:00 PM? You’d head to a café, order an espresso and pull a focused...
Valentine’s Day tends to evoke roses, prix fixe menus in crowded restaurants and the quiet pressure to create romance. But that framing might be more limiting than we realize. If we’re honest, the things that make our hearts beat faster are rarely based in...
