A short-ish story. Details: Far outside Austin. Present day. Mid March. This is a story about losing your dreams… and perhaps, finding them again. It’s about the ones that got away. The ones that you never got back and never will. The loss of your art, the loss of love…

Part II in a Series So, wow. When I casually stopped to write The Great Exhaustion on December 29th, I did not expect it to become my most read Medium piece of all time. Prior to that, a piece about existentialism and my immigrant parents had held that distinction. …

What If Beneath The Great Resignation is a Deeper Existential Truth We Are All Ignoring? — After nearly two years in and out of quarantine, my husband became the first of us to get Covid. Christmas plans thrown out the window. Fantastical dreams of finishing four books during the break turned into a few chapters here and there. As we all approach nearly 700 days…

I was living in England when Princess Diana died. Just two hours south of London, in the seaside town of Brighton. Friends of mine who were going to the funeral procession asked if I would make the trip up. I said no. I felt that to be a voyeur for…

I didn’t really lose you, I just lost it for awhile — Neil Halstead I hang on to ghosts to make me feel less alone in a world that gets colder daily. …

How to Shut off the Shame Spiral and Let Yourself Be Good Enough I am no longer happy for friends when they achieve big, substantial success. I mean, I am. I’m happy you got the thing you wanted and the big pay check and the fancy Hollywood Reporter press. Right…

It’s become apparent to me that where there is friction, there is a need for surrender (or acceptance). Surrender isn’t a popular subject. We are taught to “never give up” and doused with triumphant war imagery in popular movies throughout our lives. However, in real life, sometimes you have to…

Liberation From Over Self Identification. “What if we already peaked?” I half-jokingly asked a friend several months ago. Said friend, an individual with an unbelievable resumé that includes some of the top brands in the world, chuckled and said, “I’ve wondered that too.” A pause. “I guess that’s liberating, huh…