I really need to tell them. I sat down to type this and the washer and dryer were going full speed and were LOUD. Goodness they were loud. When I …
I’m noticing that in the mornings, I’m tending to write about what it’s like to wake up in the mornings—more about what’s going on with me internally than what’s going …
Logic doesn’t seem to be working. I converse with people and see how they’re saying one thing and doing another and I try to show that to them, and ooooo …
Love scares the hell outta me. I’ve seen it hurt me and hurt many others. Maybe it’s not the love that hurt, but how quickly the love went from intense …
Last night, I told myself to start moving slowly. To intentionally slow down when walking, speaking, moving, breathing, looking, and even singing that song in my head. Trying to take …
I never notice how loud a place is until I have to record. In the moments before I just started to write, I heard the floorboards creek overhead, the water …
I helped someone yesterday in muting the notifications on her phone. After she did it, said to me how dumb she felt. I replied that all of us are dumb …
I think I’m yawn deprived. When I look at other mammals, especially dogs and cats, I notice how they seem to yawn when they’re tired. They yawn before they fall …
I spoke with my accountability buddy earlier and it helped me see my life from a different angle. For this book-writing group, we have been assigned an accountability buddy and …
I think I spend a lot of my time trying to understand others. I try to understand what they’re thinking, what they want, who they are. And more often than …
I haven’t slept well in, well, a very long time. And I’m ashamed to admit it. You see, having worked specifically on emotions for the last eight years, I put …
What does it take to convince me that this is real? What does it take to convince you? It has been maybe a month since many of us in the …
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Sometimes we force ourselves to say things. We don’t want to say them, but something in us said that we told ourselves we would say them, so we do. It’s …
How does one begin? Perhaps one begins by removing “one” and replacing it with “I.” How do I begin? Yes, that feels more aligned with what I wanted to do. …
THE RULES Live broadcast each session on Zoom Webinar and record it so that people know you wrote extemporaneously. Set a timer for 10 minutes and start writing. When the …
Reporter: “So why did you fail the country by not paying attention to this virus earlier?” Trump: “Why are you asking me such a nasty question?” Cuomo: “Why do you …
I sit here and I cry. I cry because people are gone and they’re not coming back. I never knew these people and yet my friends did. These people occupied …
In this time of lockdown, I believe we need a space to grieve, to process the losses we experience in life. The goal with this event is to come together virtually to let out our pain and get back to the joy of living.
I'm not sure how this event will go, and yet I trust that together we will help each other through these challenging times.