This week, I spent a lot of time scouring collections of poetry and pouring through my usual go-to books for Sunday readings. I searched online for hours, googling: “Mother’s Day poems… SHORT Mother’s Day poems… Mother’s Day poems that DON’T…
I’ve done lots of forgiveness work over the years, in classes and workshops and therapeutic settings. Guided meditations, visualized conversations for healing, letter-writing exercises. Usually, some rich stuff gets unearthed — my own blind spots, a fresh perspective on an…
Travis coined the term “ANGSTICIPATION” last week. It’s a good new word. I put it on my cork board. And I’ve been thinking about how often it’s an apt description of my state of mind. He was talking about the…
“When you hit a wrong note, it’s the next note that makes it good or bad.” Miles Davis I spend a decent amount of time worrying about hitting a wrong note. Afraid that something I say or do will be…
As many times as I’ve heard and sung Morning Has Broken, by Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam, I’ve always been a little unsure about the last line of the final verse — “Praise with elation, praise every morning, God’s recreation of the…
I put myself through the wringer last week. It was totally my choice; I’m not complaining. But, man oh man, it was intense — swinging from confidence to self-doubt, from elation to misery, from calm rationality to harrowing despair, back…
I don’t know exactly how I landed amidst a bunch of negative reviews for a children’s book… It was a couple of weeks ago. I was researching something online, clicking this link and that, and I found myself transported into…
I’ve been reading a strange and stimulating book by Simon Winchester — The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary. It’s about two men central to the decades-long writing of…
I wish things would just settle down. Be still for a bit so I could catch my breath. I mean, I enjoy novelty and variety in my life. I don’t mind a little excitement, a little pizzazz. I’ve been known,…
In a novel I just finished reading, a character experiences a case of Stendhal syndrome. I’d never heard of this. Named after a 19th century French travel writer who first described the condition, Stendhal syndrome refers to a complex of…