motivation

In the middle of a meeting last week with a client, their curtains fell down. The panels were attached with Velcro, and they unattached themselves loudly, peeling away from one end of the floor-to-ceiling window to the other. “That happens,” my…

My kid keeps getting nervous and crying in the mornings before school. Kindergarten is practically over. I don’t know why we’ve come back to the nerves he started the year with. But here we are. My tendency—as any parent’s would be—has been…

I recently spent 9 months in therapy, the major goal of which was to stop judging (hating) myself. There were other goals. But that was the one that brought me. On what would become my last visit, I recounted a story for my therapist. I told her…

Saturday afternoon was the first warm day we’ve had, and the sight of the mess at the edge of the backyard crashed down on me like, well, a pile of tree limbs. There are invasive vines everywhere. Weeds like crazy. Poison ivy I never took care of last…