“I’m not where I’m supposed to be. Everyone around me is married or engaged. They have kids. A house. Letters next to their name or a senior role. A retirement fund. They’ve even found time to travel the world in there…
“Life is hard,” someone said recently.
I felt triggered by this statement. Perhaps partially because I tend to feel guilt for my privilege–and, despite my shame-spirals, really, really love life–but mostly…
I hate moving! Lord knows I hate moving!!! Does anyone really enjoy moving? Yet once again, I am moving from one side of the US to the other. Along with three cats and my 27-year-old daughter. Fortunately, this time I didn’t have to eliminate…
Last weekend, I visited Thich Nhat Hanh’s Deer Park Monastery, in Encinitas, CA, which I’m lucky to be only about an hour away from. For those who aren’t familiar with…
When I started thinking about what I was going to write for this piece, a number of ideas ran through my head. I thought,
“Well, I am incredibly thankful for my good health, a roof over my head, and food to eat…”
My mom taught me about gratitude a long time ago — needless to say, as I got older and ‘smarter’ I forgot most of it. Until I wrote her eulogy a year ago.
I wrote that I believed that a celebration of ones life however did not only lie in recounting aspects of…