Sometimes I’ve had all I can take from the news. And I realize that it’s a privilege to be able to turn it off for a second, but I also believe it’s okay to take a break if you need to. As much as we would like it if there were, there’s no physical dragon we can all run out a slay.
Read MoreIn this one, I talk about the reason I started fighting, how my personal habits changed, and a few of the common questions I got from people taking self defense classes.
Read MoreBeing able to give and receive feedback well is a skill that is worth developing. Not only will it help you grow your craft (whatever that may be) but you’ll be able to network and help others even more effectively.
Read MoreAre you aware of your emotional ‘tells’? Took me a while, but I find it’s helpful information.
Read MoreSafety in numbers is all well and good, but even now, going out is always a risk. Women still work to exist in a world where they are safer if they present themselves as being ‘owned’ by a man.
Read MoreNot all introverts are wallflowers, just as not every extrovert is an in-your-face party animal.
Read MoreA reminder for my fellow disaster planners and myself. Be careful with your body and don’t borrow misery that’s not yours.
Read MoreI’m reinventing myself yet again. Spring has always been a time of transition, and Beltane is a transition within the transition.
Read MoreLearning to relax into the moment while still striving to be my best.
Read MoreI’m still friends with everyone in this thumbnail. And I think that’s via mutual effort. Friendship is a theme that has been brought up frequently for me this month, so I am examining it in this post.
Read MoreNo matter who we are, there’s generally something about ourselves that we’d like to change. And I’m all for working to be the best that you can be, but what about when you’re fighting against your basic architecture?
Read MoreThe holidays are different this year. Regardless of your beliefs, it’s okay to stop the passive aggressive memes for the rest of the year.
Read MoreI can be relatively young and very very healthy and still have plenty of valid reasons to avoid an airborne virus.
Read MoreThis isn’t a cheerful one this week. I always try to interject some cheer or at least an uplift to what I write, but this is for the people who may be feeling like I do and just need to read their feelings in someone else’s words and feel less alone for a few seconds. I will not give up.
Read MoreLearning to deal with an unfamiliar emotion.
Read MoreNo matter what your situation is, you’re doing the best with what you have. And everyone’s experience will be different. Give yourself a break.
Read MoreThe balance between appreciating where you are and trying improve.
Read MoreLightening doesn’t normally strike twice, but does that mean it can’t? Or are you still just shaken up from the first time.
Read MoreThe picture (and embedded video) are all the photographic evidence I have left of a family trip to the Grand Canyon. I had an album of older photos, but I think it must have been a casualty of the fire because I cannot find it. By this time I had written my first novel. Hand written on recycled paper, where it remains. I never made it through putting it into typeface. I like to think this little one would be happy with where she ended up. (Although she would be pissed I hadn’t done something with that historical fiction she wrote at thirteen.)
Read MoreI try not to get political on this platform. I don’t really feel that this is political, as I feel like the planet we live on should transcend politics, but it doesn’t seem that way much of the time. And this is important to me.
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