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Making Fond Memories
It’s been said that happiness is a long life and a short memory. That may well be true. But I have an intimidatingly precise memory; the queen of attention to detail. People often express surprise at...
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Digging Up The Past
When we go digging, we have to expect that things will come up. That’s the point of digging, isn’t it? This month I’ve been doing a lot of digging. An emotional excavation of sorts. I’ve been analyzing...
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Being Open To Love
This is the first time in my life that I’ve been healthy enough, together enough, to offer my whole—unbroken, unfragmented—heart to someone. This is the first time I’ve gone into a relationship without...
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Understanding and Beating Depression
This is a love letter. I wrote this last year, but I mean it even more now. When a person is born with a physical disability—a shortened leg, or only one lung—the world would never expect that person...
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Needing Alone Time
Sometimes, we need time to be alone. Sometimes we just need space to regroup. Sometimes we need emotional privacy. But sometimes, that’s a cop-out. I tend to hide. When my life gets overwhelming and I...
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What Do You Need
What do you need? I’m realizing that the less I need, the happier I am. The less food, the less possessions, the less attention. The body needs very little to be healthy. The excess is the burden. But...
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Courageously Pursuing Happiness
This moment is preparing you for the grandest love of your life. Every moment of our lives is historical. This is the stuff of legends. A hundred thousand, thousand, moments strung together like...
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The Unforgivable
There will be mistakes that you won’t be able to recover from. There will be hugely regrettable instances that people won’t forgive you for. As sorry as you are, as much as you’ve changed because of...
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Wild at Heart
Do not be reckless with other people’s hearts; do not put up with people who are reckless with yours. It’s a line from Baz Luhrmann’s “Sunscreen” speech to the graduating class of ’99. & I love...
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How to Rebound
It’s important to be trivial. Take a deep breath of silliness. Let your mind wander off and wonder about cloud shapes and how certain types of furniture got their names–ottoman, for example–become...
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