What do you complain about the most? I once had a colleague lovingly tease me about how I constantly complain about being sleepy. Not in a mean way. In a we’ve-noticed-a-pattern way. Apparently, phrases like: “I’m tired.”“I’m sleepy.”“I need to wake up.”“I need a Red Bull.” Exit my […]
What would you do if you won the lottery? Haven’t we all done it? Bought a ticket. Laid our head on the pillow. Let the mind wander into that delicious little fantasy called What if? What if I won the lottery. I sometimes think it would have been […]
There was a time when “looking up” meant stars, clouds, and maybe the occasional airplane dragging a banner for a pizza place. Now? Now it’s satellites. Roughly 15,000 of them, as of January 2026. And about two-thirds belong to Starlink. Which feels a little like discovering that most […]
Ah, February. The shortest month on the calendar, arriving after what has felt like the longest January in recorded human history. January didn’t just pass. It lingered. It unpacked its bags. It made itself coffee. It settled into our nervous systems. And now here comes February, technically brief, […]
There’s a Japanese concept called Kaizen. It means continuous improvement. Not the flashy kind. Not the TED Talk kind. The quiet, daily, incremental kind. The kind that happens in small moments, awkward conversations, and uncomfortable realizations. The kind that doesn’t announce itself with confetti. Just steady becoming. Lately, […]
I recently discovered that I suffer from a very real condition. It’s called junk blindness. This is not in the DSM (yet), but if it were, my office would be the case study. You see, no matter how many times I “clean” my workspace, paper abounds. It multiplies. […]
There’s a quote often attributed to Sun Tzu that has been haunting me lately: An evil man will burn his own nation to the ground to rule over the ashes. I’m not talking about current politics. Truly. I’m talking about what I’ve seen up close, at the granular, […]
Where can you reduce clutter in your life? This grand January snowstorm came in hot. Well. Cold. But you know what I mean. It was nonstop. Relentless. The kind of snow that doesn’t gently fall. It commits. It stacks itself. It blocks your car. It cancels your plans […]
I live in a housefull of heartbeat and voices,laughter ricocheting off walls,footsteps tapping rhythms up and down stairs. And yetthere are nightswhen the noise dissolvesand I am alonein a room packed with people. It’s strange, right?To feel invisiblewhile standing center stagein your own life. Pain has a way […]
What is your favorite animal? Sharks. Those glamorous, fin-flipping divas of the deep. The rulers of the ocean. The creatures who make every beachgoer reconsider their life choices at the mere sight of a dorsal fin. And what’s their secret weapon? Teeth. Lots of teeth. Teeth that grow […]
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