This is surely the strangest September most of us have ever lived through. What will this Fall bring to our lives, to our country, to our world? No one knows. Uncertainty is the only thing
Inner Critic
Corralling Your Critic in a Crisis
Living through a pandemic seems to have given my inner critic a “get out of jail free” card. She chimes in multiple times a day about how I’m simply not getting enough done. She reminds
Read More
Pandemic
Not Myself Today
A few weeks ago, when Covid-19 began keeping us all home, my partner Malve dug an old mental health button out of the junk drawer. It said “Not Myself Today.” In case any of us
Read More
Self-Care
A Time to Trust
I don’t know about you, but I’m finding that time has a very different quality during this period of isolation. It’s more than not remembering the date or the day of the week. There seems
Read More
Pandemic
Writing What Is
This morning, I woke from a lovely dream. I was at the beach on a sunny day. There were kids and friends and sun-warmed bodies, lying close together. There was laughter and warmth and playfulness.
Read More
Pandemic
A Unifying Event
Nine days suddenly feels like a lifetime. Nine days ago, I sat in a room with 15 other women for an in-person workshop. We wrote with our elbows nearly touching, we laughed, some cried, we