This morning I have that REM song stuck in my head, the one about how everybody struggles, sometimes. “When your day is long and the night, the night is yours alone, when you’re sure you’ve had enough of this life, well hang on…” Running with this is the image of a storm-tossed boat, a life …
How is your Christmas shopping coming this year? Christmas shopping is one of my favorite things to do. I look forward to it every year. I love putting together a list, reflecting on what I know about the people I am shopping for and choosing things personally, things I believe each person will take some …
On November 9, I wrote about an experience I had with my 2-year old niece, the first time her parents left her with someone else (me) for a couple of hours, while they went to the bank. How, when she finally realized they weren’t there, she searched for them, and then cried, then went into …
From time to time I find myself stuck. You know that feeling: it feels like you are trapped and that nothing you do will make a difference. I felt trapped at work – I couldn’t figure out how to move to the next level of a relationship with someone that I needed to get feedback …
Each chapter that I read of Welcoming the Unwelcome feels as if it were written for me in this time, now. I know that cannot be so, for it was published in 2019, a collection of writings going back to the 1990’s. Yet the topics reflect where we are today: a chapter on polarization; on …
