I love to travel, try new foods, ingest caffeine, and watch political news coverage. A psychologist by training trying to bring a little common sense to it all.
It’s ok to be bold, brash, and boisterous It’s not for an hour, a day, or a month It’s for a time to come generation past generation It’s a desire to be better and do better It’s a belief that we can be better for the collective It’s […]
This past weekend I decided to try to “catch” a movie. I wanted to get a little bit of normalcy and tap into a sense of nostalgia. I clicked on Harley Quinn: Birds of Prey. And, for two hours I wondered why I had bothered. Back to that […]
She could see from her webcam that the package had arrived. She had been waiting and waiting and planning. It was all that she could think about for days. She was ready to start a new life. And this box had it all. She felt full of life […]
Anchors are important. They hold you in place at where you need to be. They can also proverbially weigh you down. Sometimes purposefully. Sometimes unknowingly. At times you have to ask yourself what do you want to hold onto and what do you want to move towards to. […]
Bitter pills. Poison pills. Self-doubt. Doubt about others. Concern about truth. Concern about one’s steadiness. Wondering about the right steps. Wondering about the next steps. Calculating risks. Calculating possible rewards. Reviewing decisions. Reliving decisions. Recalibration. Doubt. Burning doubt. All together doubt is a hard thing to process and […]
All that money All that adulation All that hindsight All that sunshine All that glory All that hairspray All the misty eyes All the bowling balls All the fake greetings All the fear All the pretty cakes Won’t save you
Every once in a while, I check out the urban dictionary to see what new phrases are coming into our world. I also look at Twitter trends to get a grasp of what’s the new vocabulary, no matter how fleeting. I like being in the know. I even […]
A long time ago- January 14 1984 to be exact- Dick Clark asked Madonna on American Bandstand “What do you hope will happen, not only in 1984 but for the rest of your professional life? What are your dreams? What’s left?” Madonna’s response was succint and to the […]
Despite my son being born in the summertime, he far prefers winter. He loves snow. He loves the cold. We went, a few years back, to Berlin during the Christmas holiday and my son was greatly delighted. While I walked around with three pairs of wool socks on, […]
She woke up fuzzy and tired. Scuttled over to the semi-dark kitchen wrapped up in doubt. For sure she knew she needed coffee. However, she needed something more. She jumped into the shower and took the grime off. She shut her mind and let the heat soak into […]
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