SO I was sitting in the park cooling my feet in the coldest river water south of the artic circle, or so it felt. My feet are tired and sore from my new job as a waitress. Three times I dipped them in, and the last time I finally got…

A Story for Our Times — Chicken Little. Most of us learned this story as a child, and there are many versions. Basically, Chicken Little, or Henny Penny, is walking in the woods, and an acorn falls on her head. She becomes frightened and assumes that the sky is falling. She runs and tells everyone she knows that the sky is falling, Loosey Goosey, and all the farm and field animals, including…

When the going gets weird, the weird go pro. At least that’s what Hunter S. Thompson advocated in his years of industrious documenting of the daily weirdness…. Well, if this is true, than I must say, I should be well on my way to being a professional. …

Imagine you are at a bowling alley, in fact you are right there at the head of the lane, with the shoes on and everything, in proper form, ball in hand, eyes fixed on the pins…you inhale deeply, pull your arm back… Yeah, I stopped there. Imagine bowling like that, getting everything perfectly in…

We all have those things in life we have to go through, that we would like to not have to do at all. Like the eight of cups in tarot, we want to walk away. But in walking away, to avoid the pain of doing what needs to be done…

Today is March 10, 2021 and I am having a great day. Today I feel like I am fulfilling a personal life purpose. I facilitated my first big extra-organizational meeting, which is big in itself. But on top of that, it holds deep personal significance for me because it was…

What day isn’t weird anymore? Well, I have decided to document the weirdness daily, document and observe. Hold me accountable people, okay? So, granted…today was weirder than most. After a couple weeks of some familiar “normalness-ish-ness” of hybrid distance learning at my son’s school, we got the news that the…

Caregivers are so important, but they often forget self-care. — Being a caregiver can add value to life. To begin with, caregivers knowing that they are providing the care they know their family member or patient needs can bring great joy and value. But beyond this, caregivers also provide a benefit to society at large, in a very practical way. Caregivers save the government and society from a…

What does it mean to engage with our grief? What I took from a conversation with Hannah Helms, a hospital hospice worker. — The way we engage with our grief is a good way to measure if we are grieving in a healthy way, according to Hanna Helms, Hospice Social Worker. Helms explains that a lot of unhealthy grieving habits arise from trying to escape grief, and the pain that comes with it. But still, why is grief a gift?