Daily Verse 11.2.20: Being Awake
I am a menopausal white woman in the middle of a pandemic. And I’m awake. Not just in the political/activist sense (which honestly makes me twitch a little every time I hear it—because it feels self-righteous and congratulatory when a white person says it), but in a very literal sense. …
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What a 16-year-old girl and fishing for marlins reminded me
“Our house is on fire”, She said quite plainly. That was Greta Thunberg, a 16-year-old Swedish climate activist who spoke to hundreds of world leaders at Davos back in January of this year. She then went on to say that now was the time for us to speak clearly, and …
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Feminine C4
“Please don’t let me blow shit up,” She said. It was literally one of the first things she said to me when she came into my office that day—a stranger, who would soon become my client. I smiled at her as she plopped down on my couch that day, because …
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Run, Lady, Run
“I feel like a feral cat pacing back and forth in a cage,” She said. I looked at her and everything about her seemed like it wanted to be wild—her hair, the laugh that exploded out of her in a snort when she was caught off guard, the way …
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The Almighty Point
“What’s the point of doing it if it’s not good?” She asked. I hear that question so often from clients. Hell, I ask that question so often, myself. So I can appreciate first-hand, how every slight detour or deviation from our “normal” day to day operations are often met with …
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The Other Way
When I was a little girl, I used to loll on my bed looking up at the ceiling when I was supposed to be getting up and getting ready for school. I used to wonder about things, looking up at that blank expanse of nothingness, untainted by nail holes, finger …
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What Is Happening To Me?
Imagine you’re minding your own business walking down a crowded city street and suddenly you feel the ground vibrating beneath your feet. You stop, unsure of what you’ve just felt and ask a fellow pedestrian, “What was THAT!?” Distracted, the person glances quickly over at you and says, “What was …
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Life In The Area
This is a repost from something I wrote last year. At the time, I was poised to release my book into the world, and writing this helped me to name what I was feeling. A year later, I find myself returning to my own words in a different context, but …
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How Big Your Brave Is
Last week I played hookie with my two sons. We’d been planning it all week, so technically that might disqualify us from the official “hookie” category – you know the one that feels deliciously deviant, boldly spontaneous and wildly out of the ordinary. But still, we called it hookie. Our …
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The Waiting Is The Hardest Part
I’ve never been a huge fan of Tom Petty, but maybe he had a point with this one…because in my book – and from what I see daily in my clients’ worlds – the waiting IS most definitely the hardest part. You know what I’m talking about, right? You’ve made …
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