Do I quit, or just submit?

Forget the plans and focus on your preferences.

What Harry Styles taught me about empathy, ethics, and how to be a good person

A life of moving forward without looking ahead.

What to do when your brain needs ‘rewilding.’

Being able to change one's mind, to switch gears and change course is less of a privilege and more of a survival skill.

Summer days are ripe with the promise of bonus reading time.

How might we invite more poetry into our lives?

A re-read of Normal People illuminates the brilliance of the new BBC series

What’s the focus?

A high and bright sun rising up over the rooftops and and not fading into dusk until just around 7pm.

You're free to have a chuckle at my expense, but in a recent newsletter from The Numinous, my weekly 'Libra Rising' mantra was, "I am following whatever feels the most like fun to me."

Here’s to another 364 possibilities.

I’ve never stopped thinking of this time of year as back-to-school, ideas and pencils sharpened and ready to get cracking with some new material. Unlike most, I’m unintimidated by a blank page; it’s an invitation, an offer I can’t refuse. 

You wanna pizza me?

While I've certainly eaten many a sad lunch al desko, and occasionally been a woman laughing alone with salad, nothing disappoints me more than a wasted meal, and I believe that our daily lunches deserve more attention.

I know it’s global warming, but that sunshine sure feels good right now.

I think, "who is the loneliest monk," and I smile wryly to myself, wondering if it’s me.

For as much as I relish the quiet time to focus and the chance to avoid being tempted into eating cheeseburgers, the monotony of the aloneness is what wears me down and draws me too deeply inward. So during these times, I tend to invent little projects for myself, assignments with checklists to tackle and milestones to meet.

An introvert’s quest for creative chemistry