A Year of Ingestion

I want to share this with you but I also feel hesitant for fear of adding to our prevailing social messaging that more ingestion is more better. Really, though, our minds are like sieves and we learn more when we slow down and allow for repetition. Still, I ingested...

A Paper Trail of Time

 A woman I knew shared this from her then 99-year-old mother: “Time is like a toilet paper roll. The closer you are to the end, the faster it goes.” There are a lot of theories about why our perception of time changes. One says that it’s about having an ever-growing...

You can’t make soup without a dish rag

I was cooking. Actually, I was cleaning. Before one can cook, one must clean to make space. And it was all good until I thought about all the cleaning to come – the pots & pans & bowls & spoons & spatulas & whisks & knife & boards I would...

Busy, not Rushed

I have noticed myself rushing around a lot lately. Part of it is having a very full coaching schedule, which is wonderful. Part of it is prioritizing the things that make my whole self feel more alive and agile and present, like sitting for meals, (nearly) daily yoga,...

3 Invitations for the New Year

  A few invitations as this year – this historic, this world-changing, this illuminating, this very challenging year – comes to its close: I invite you to avoid the tropes that shovel all of 2020 into the dumpster fire to be incinerated. Life is too complex,...

14 Actions of Everyday Activism

  In November of 2016, I attended the Women’s March in my hometown of Greensboro, North Carolina, with a friend and our mothers. It was the first time my friend’s mother had participated in anything she considered to be activism. Women across the country...

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