They say there are five stages of grief and that there is no order in how a person navigates a certain loss.…
Pain \peyn\ n. 3a. Physical or bodily suffering; a continuous, strongly unpleasant or agonizing sensation in the body, such as…
The first time my white neighbor called the police it was during the renovation of our historic house in the deed-restricted neighborhood…
Therapy is the supportive process of accompanying one’s journey of transcendence from darkness to light to darkness again, ultimately landing somewhere in…
I saw The Notebook musical on Broadway during a Full Moon in Scorpio. Yes, I am an astrology nerd and this Full…
Thousand Oaks, California I flew from coast to coast when I was nine years old. My father found work in August and…
Grandmothers Some little girls, with plaits and blemishes, cook rice and jerk chicken as the heat crawls down their spine in the…
I grew up in the heart of the Midwest during the 1970s, the era of peace, love, Vietnam War protests and what…
I took the longest strides of my life during my first winter in America. Race-walking in between classes as my nostrils felt…
Si·en·na /sēˈenə/ noun a kind of ferruginous earth used as a pigment in painting, normally yellowish-brown in color (raw sienna) or deep…
Once, a former co-worker of mine stopped me in the middle of working, calling my name. I turned to him, with no…
“Every human being is intended to have a character of his own; to be what no others are, and to do what…
I can clean my entire apartment in under two hours. That’s two podcasts or one catch up call with a dear friend…
I am embarrassed to admit that I loved Levittown even when it didn’t love me. It was my first home, and like…
I can’t remember ever not wanting to be a mother. The lullaby to first tuck itself into my memory was Rock-a-Bye Baby.…