Retroactive Emergency Vacation

It’s story time today. Ten years ago this May. I don’t want to write about this. And definitely not in the mood to go into all the details. So. Ignoring the mechanisms, the how and why of my world falling apart, some relevant pieces: In May of...

What is true? What’s also true?

This is me, talking to myself. Using the question that almost always helps. What’s true? So tired! What’s also true? This is a pattern. Craving rest is legitimate. There are reasons for being tired. It’s okay. Rest is the first duty of the queen....

Catching the next wave.

My friend Michael has this theory. It’s been at least a decade since he explained it to me so there’s pretty much no way I can do justice to its twisted brilliance/hilarity, but the basic idea is this: Sometimes we fall out of synch with the world. Or with...
The Fluent Self