Down with New Year’s Resolutions
Our lives simply don’t work as a checklist.
Black Balloons Revisited
I forgot that you can sometimes not try very hard and still fail.
A Letter to a Younger Me
If I could write a letter to a younger me, I’d tell her to hurry up.
Airports
The airport is where you can take a breath between destinations and deadlines as well as responsibilities and people that you don’t want to face yet.
Diaries of a Traveling Therapist
I have gagged on the suffocating stench emanating from chicken farms down the road from one of my client’s schools. Each day is truly a new and unique day.
Power Through Writer’s Block in 7 Easy Steps
Sometimes it feels like that’s all you’ve written about, only variations on a theme, the same thing spun a thousand different ways. Let the mystery…
I Wish Country Songs Were Still Sad
Music changes, and change is good.
Putting My Underwear on Backwards
Perhaps my first mistake was expecting that I would ever entirely grow out of it.
git gud, noob: Meditations for the New Year
This year, and any time you play Dark Souls, you will rush into something, and you will fail. You will take your time at something, and you will fail—even at something you’ve done easily a hundred times before.
Used Things, Old Things, Worn-but-good-enough Things: A Defense
As we receive and give our things away, we perpetuate a legacy of generous exchange.
