Let’s talk about gold thinking. I need gold thinking. Maybe we all do. I’ve been craving a good coloring session, one where I sit down in quite and color in a mandala. I’ve really been craving metallic colored pencils, especially gold [...]

I love to mix my metaphors. I do it all the time. I especially like this mixed up metaphor, which has been attributed to various sources. I like to believe that it’s originally from David Lee Roth.  I mean, you can’t say “brain [...]

This week, this month (this year?) has been a wild, anxiety inducing ride. I’ve noticed myself falling back into an old and very uncomfortable pattern – checking every 15 minutes to find out if something new and alarming has happened.  Have [...]

I wrote a really fun blog this weekend. It was all polished up and scheduled and ready to go out by Sunday afternoon. Then, Sunday night there were the emergency alerts coming in fast and furious on the phone.  Evacuations. Fast moving fires. Deja [...]

I was just going along this week, doing my stuff and I noticed that I heard multiple people say something like “my life is on hold” or “I want my life back” or “I’ll do it when this is over.” In fact, I heard it [...]

I wanna build on part of the topic from last week’s post, specifically polarization. To quote myself (I know, I know) “Polarization is when we perceive people who disagree with us as our enemy. Polarization happens as a result of stress and [...]

That’s right, harmony isn’t made up of just one note. When I think about the music that I love, it’s made up of lush, complex harmonies. Different voices. Different instruments. I especially like crunchy, contemporary music that has a [...]

Last weekend, I was talking to Jordan, responding to a simple question: “What did you do this weekend?” I listed all the chores I had done (our joke is that I can that relaxing) and started coming up with excuses for the things I hadn’t [...]

How are you doing? How are you treating my friend? We’ve all been living in an extended period of hyper-vigilance, stress and anxiety. It’s different than the kind of stress we were used to in the “before” times.  It’s super [...]

I love reading stories about time travel – backwards and forwards in time. I wondered what it would be like going back in time, when the pleasures were simpler, the days were less harried and hurried, when people made most of their own food, had to [...]