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.
Instagram Accounts to Spark Your Joy in 2019
It was high time for a serious KonMari discard session, and over the course of a couple of days I gleefully tapped the “unfollow” button dozens of times.
The Way I Came
This February, the Alaskan Way Viaduct will be disassembled. Trucks and cranes will shake loose the concrete foundations before an earthquake has the pleasure, and I’m beginning to realize that I will never be able to leave Seattle the way I came.
A Yinzer Yankee in the Lonestar State
But for now, all I can think about is how out of place my Christmas trees looked when my neighbors have a cactus naturally growing in their front yard. And I will envy all y’all yanks up there.
