Item! #6! Merry! Happy! Etcetera!

A somewhat goofy mini-collection of stuff I’ve been reading, stuff I’ve been thinking about and oh, some completely random crap. Basically the stuff that never gets mentioned here because I’m not the kind of person who can just make some teeny little...

Blogging Therapy: Reader’s Choice

And now for something completely slightly different … For number twelve in our weekly series about taking the scary out of blogging, I’m responding to a few of the questions from participants in the Screw Therapy Start Blogging course this past weekend....

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...
The Fluent Self