— Healing with No Medicine — Sometimes, the medicine I need is no medicine at all. This very old house… wind gusts whirl through open… Read More »Lucid

Preparing Lunch Out of the mean things I think about myself, this one feels worth assessing today: I think about this family (this woman) I… Read More »Garlic Tears and Grackles

There’s this great song by Christine and the Queens called People, I’ve been sad. Rahim’s voice moves like they’re underwater—a traveling whale song, rippling out… Read More »People, I’ve been sad

I wrote something different before this. Something more tangled, more charged. It needed to be written that way first, but not shared that way. Because… Read More »The Light in the Crowd

When I walk my dogs and I’m present I remember I’ve always been happy, I’ve always enjoyed my life. It’s about remembering and putting ourselves… Read More »My Dogs, My Muse

The way I tell stories is not for everyone. I don’t try to make people laugh or entertain them. That happens, sometimes, but not because… Read More »What We Do With Despair

What if closure isn’t something we get from others? What if closure is an acceptance we create for ourselves by shifting the focus from what’s… Read More »On Closure

It’s important to Noah that we watch Game of Thrones together at night. So here I am, laptop on lap, two dogs at our feet,… Read More »Falling Back in Love with Your Craft