G-d exposure therapy. Today is the elementary school's annual Hike Through History. It's 86 degrees outside, and there's little shade in...

Walking through the Monet traveling exhibit in Boston during a French class fieldtrip in high school, listening to the tutorial audio...

A bearded iris in the morning's first light, the beard a glowing sea anemone, the petals a beaded Victorian purse. The t-shirts I found...

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I'm trying to figure shit out through writing. One of the things I realized during this therapeutic...

Winnowing, distilling, parsing, honing, exposing. Great writing requires a ruthless pen. Re-reading the passage over and over, each time...

I slept fitfully last night. The kids used my phone to listen to a sleep story, and I was too tired to retrieve it after they fell...

The first bachelor button bloomed yesterday. Some days my brain feels like it contains an empty marble rolling back and forth with each...

The unbearable Thing isn't, really. Because if it was unbearable, then we couldn't carry it. Examining the sadness, looking inward at the...

Passant, regarde ce grand arbre et à travers lui, il peut suffire.Car même déchiré, souillé, l’arbre des rues, c’est toute la nature,...

What does it mean to write about trauma in real time? Instead of going to work to avoid processing the loss, the Finder makes the...

I'm listening to Frozen 2. On my own. "The Next Right Thing," sung by my celebrity crush Kristen Bell, fits my mood. And the next song,...

I wrote a draft yesterday about feeling frustrated with everything: the fact that C stayed home sick, that I was like a glorified but...

Ralph Waldo Emerson's writing remains one of the most profound sources of comfort and inspiration I've ever consumed. From my teen years...

My daughter tucked a Crayola-yellow dandelion into my braid and held my hand on the walk to school; my darling, you know the meaning of...

Yesterday, in the course of wrapping up my law business, someone said something unkind. Not to put too fine a point on it, but they...

Just because you had breakfast doesn't mean you're not allowed to have dinner. I'm paraphrasing Esther Perel giving advice to a young...

I canNOT do this unLESS you give me LIGHTENING!, I admonished the rain this morning. I left the French Doors on the porch open, lay a...

I wish I had a close relationship with my mother. I don't think about it as often as I used to, but days like today, when my husband and...

My cat, Petite Puce ("my little flea") bit my son while he snuggled her before school this morning. C is proud of his quiet ability to...

The feeling runs from my throat, traveling like water or air through my core. My nervous system is activated. I'm nervous. Filled with...