It is 2 p.m. on a rainy Thursday afternoon. I am sitting at my desk, occasionally glancing over to the window to watch the rain pour down. In some ways, I needed it to be a rainy day today. Rainy days are always symbolic of cleansing to me. The past few weeks have been full of worry over a lot Read more…
Cup of coffee in hand and breeze forming around me as I sit on the fire escape, I pick up the first book on my windowsill, “The courage to be.” I thought twice about flipping through pages that may spur me to think too deeply on a light Saturday morning. Remembering that I’ve already read the first few chapters, I Read more…
I will forever be grateful to my parents. They provided me with a model of what it really means to stick by your partner’s side…through thick and thin. I think that our romantic culture does us a disservice sometimes. There is this message floating around that it’s okay to abandon ship when things get tough. Mostly because some of us Read more…
This morning as I was driving, I saw a driver cut another one off in traffic. My first thought was what a jerk. Of course if I had been the one cut off, I would have had more colorful names for that driver. It just so happens that I had that experience just a couple of days ago. As I was Read more…
