pondering

A few weeks ago, my daughter, Georgia, started crying from the basement playroom. My husband went down there, and found her pointing up at the windowsill, where a copper folk-art style cat was sitting. It had been sitting there since the day she was born…

Does anyone else have a problem letting it be? That there is a pretty rockin’ song about letting it be tells me I’m probably not the only one eager to hear those words of wisdom from Mother Mary. Oh, by the way, I’m sorry I was away for so long.…

Charlie Brown tells us happiness is a warm blanket. So what's independence? I have some ideas. Independence is a thing to celebrate. Independence is full of risks. Independence is not giving a shit what anyone else thinks. Independence is…

My soul is in stories. But the way I cope and process is much closer to bullet points. So recently, I asked a therapist I see from time to time to give me five of them. A “Judi’s top five” for dealing with the not-great stuff currently in my…

I just keep thinking of one word: “release.” Release. It came to me again during a run this past Sunday. Five miles in and I’m thinking of all the ways in which release moves us forward. From the big, big to the small, small. And how there…