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I don’t remember what game we were playing, or what this little boy was having a tough time with, but I remember like it was yesterday watching his father get more and more frustrated, eventually losing his temper and snapping at his sweet little boy. They were on a team and they were losing and…

Love is not a finite resource. There isn’t a limited number of love things to pass around. Which means holding on tightly to the love inside you, instead of giving it away, isn’t the way to get love. At times I have felt like it is safest to not express all of the big love…

It’s good to just go sometimes. Adventure is always within reach. The earth is bigger than your stress. Nature is cleansing. You’re allowed to take care of yourself. “Ever more people today have the means to live, but no meaning to live for.” ~ Viktor Frankl “With shortness of breathYou explained the infiniteAnd how rare…

“You don’t pass or fail at being a person.” Neil Gaiman It’s true. Nothing to add. Except maybe this one other little tear-jerker moment from Avengers: Endgame. “Everyone fails at who they’re supposed to be, Thor. The measure of a person, of a hero, is how well they succeed at being who they are.” Thor’s…

I wrote this for you 4 years ago. ❤ ~ I have anxiety. Some days I am in the zone, killing it. I am a manager and I’m good at it. I am great at sales and customer service. I am great at leading projects. I am the president of a Toastmasters club and I…

So much of every day we do what we do and we don’t what we don’t because of a “supposed to” feeling. Many of these arbitrary standards, none of us even like anymore, but we don’t dare color outside the lines about them. Most of us don’t dance when we want to dance. Most people…

Written 2 Januarys ago ~ Hello again friends, happy new year to you! Have you made any resolutions this year? Maybe set some 2022 goals? I haven’t. And not because I think resolutions are bad. I don’t think they’re bad, I don’t think I’m better than you for not falling for them, and I bet…

Written 4 New-Year’ses ago ~ Of all the years in my whole entire life, 2019 is the year that I’ve most often found myself telling someone, “It’s been a tough year.” But I’m going to miss 2019. The sad parts of a journal aren’t any less treasured memories than the happy parts. Each year is…

Christmas is supposed to be a time for feeling safety and love and togetherness. Right? What is your Christmas like, though? What is it really like? Some of us have had that love and belonging that has made Christmas merry. And some of us have instead had mostly loneliness, rejection, confusion, and hurt. I bet…

and so I’m offering this simple phrase to kids from one to ninety-two The Christmas Song One of my earliest vivid memories, marked by the musty smell of old books in the college library: Two fellow professors stopped my dad and struck up a conversation. They held their briefcases and said big sentences to each…