“Some people have a thick skin and you don’t. Your heart is really open and that is going to cause pain, but that is an appropriate response to this world.” — Anne Lamott A few weeks ago I wrote, what I thought, was a fun, sarcastic, tongue-in-cheek post about some…
Let me just start by saying that I am generally a morning person. And I like to think that I’m usually a pretty optimistic person. Maybe not a Susie Sunshine, but definitely a glass-half-full kind of girl. But…there are some mornings that are just downright brutal and some days when…
“It is our nature not only to see that the world is beautiful but to stand in the dark, under the stars, or at noon, in the rainfall of light, frenzied, wringing our hands, half-mad, saying over and over: what does it mean, that the world is beautiful— what does it mean?” — Excerpt from…
“We’re all just walking each other home.” – Ram Dass For years – maybe even most of my life – I have thought that there was this Road that I needed to find, this pathway to happiness and security and success. And I believed that there must be some kind…
One of my favorite parts of the day is when the kids come home from school. Backpacks = Trust Trust in teachers, trust in my boys, trust in the world. ******************* Me, wearing my mom’s boots as a kid. Each year I find that I am becoming more and more…
Twelve years ago, I moved to Chicago, a city of nearly 3 million people. I came to Chicago from a tiny rural town in Wisconsin with a population of only about 5,000 by way of a seven-year stay in Madison, Wisconsin, which is home to approximately a quarter million people.…