Dear friends, I struggle with gratitude. Not the part about seeing how my life is overflowing with love and beauty and abundance, though. Hopefully, if you know me at all, you know that I know these things, deep in my heart. I struggle because gratitude is an insufficient response to a world that is unjust […]
Hello my friends. I am still writing, just keeping a lower profile for awhile. Feel free to contact me directly for updates if you know how to reach me, and I’ll see you back here soon. ❤
Lately my neighbors’ tumbling mass of super sweet jasmine stops me in my tracks on my morning coffeewalks and reminds me of a children’s story that made a big impression on Small Me: There’s a very poor old man living in a very small village. He’s so poor, he can only afford one very small […]
Y’all, I am feeling pretty darned adulty over here and going to celebrate for a second. Last night I had a wave of anxiety about a Thing That Might Happen Tomorrow (TTMHT). Started telling myself a story in which a few random recent nothings were signs that a big scary disaster was brewing. Instead of […]
On my mind this Monday morning, a story from my grandfather about the meaning of work: Grampa spent his career at GE back when that was a thing. He was an inventor with an insatiably restless mind. At one point, GE was building a huge new factory. Grampa was one of the earliest to move […]
Twelve years. A day, and forever. Not sure which. But it does, finally, feel like enough distance that I can bear to go back and find the eulogy I wrote for his funeral. It was the best I could do to build a memorial for him at the time. Turns out, it still brings him […]
You guys. I just saw it so clearly it took my breath away. The pattern is, there is no pattern. Walk with me here for a sec: We’ve got a holiday today, so I’m on an extra-leisurely coffeewalk. Thinking about the sine wave hum of anxiety that backgrounds my existence, and how it’s based in […]
Short rant ahead so listen up: 1. I am a lifelong coward. Conflict averse like you wouldn’t believe. People angry at me feels like death. 2. Offhand I can think of no fewer than three occasions when I have deliberately risked my career on a principle. Including once where I actually torpedoed my own job […]
My college classmates group is all abuzz over the Cabinet confirmations of a couple of our alums, and it is triggering me right in the Shoulds, big time. Because that’s what it seems like so many of my classmates are: Big Time. Now, it’s a huge school, so I’m not implying I’m BFFs with these […]
Welp, today is my birthday. Looking back, 48 was quite a year by the numbers: Left my office in L.A. on March 11 and never went back Voted twice (I mean the primary and the general, what’d you think I meant?) Beat one big scary bully with my brain and my ability to build strong […]