Ask Havi #16: Holiday Loneliness

The holidays tend to trigger — in all of us — all sorts of uncomfortable stuff. Today’s Ask Havi comes from a woman in an especially tough spot. I will do what I can to come up with a kind of abridged survival guide to help her through this lonely...

On my mind.

Asking for help. Close to home. Portland’s women’s bookstore, In Other Words — which is also really the neighborhood bookstore in Northeast Portland where I live — has fallen on some hard times. I know, I know. Hard times all over. But...

Ask Havi #15: meditation edition

Today’s complicated Ask Havi should really be about twenty Ask Havis. It’s a big question — a very broad question — about my thoughts on meditation. Thoughts? Since I have far too many thoughts on this subject to possibly contain them in a post...
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