

NOTHING ON EARTH IS IMMUNE TO CHANGE
"Safety doesn't come from nothing changing, it comes from feeling safe while changing." I've been a bit quiet during this pandemic. The...


Am I Inconvenient To You?
Tonight I was sitting on a curb feeding a cat who spends the majority of her life hiding under cars to keep safe from people, other...


FITTING IN AND EVOLUTION
I saw this short Ted Talk the other day, and it inspired me to write a little summary of how I felt growing up in a world that felt like...


VISION
Many things happened in my life when I was eight years old. That was the year before I started to notice I could not see the words...


COMMITMENT
I took a five month trip to New Zealand and Australia many years ago. I had been saving up for one year to go to massage school, and one...


Gratitude
I am sitting in bed writing this, condensation on my windows as an early morning car passes by in the darkness. It's 4 am and I am...


Emotional Responsibility
How we become more emotionally responsible for ourselves is a very individual journey, which includes how we manage our own internal...


The Hustle
Hustle. Because of who I am and how I engage in and relate to the world, this word has kind of haunted me. A couple years ago I took a...


The Passing of Moses
Moses died in the middle of a hurricane. We could not stay on the tiny island of Miami Beach with a potential category 5 hurricane on...


A TOTAL Eclipse
Many months ago a friend of mine who lives in Champaign, IL told me there was going to be a total eclipse in her hometown of Carbondale,...