I can honestly say this is the best I’ve ever been. I can step forward with confidence, radiance, and clarity.

We may not always have the proper words to go with our inner pain, but we can still mend and heal the parts of us that become inexplicably b

There’s a stigma about getting old, but I think people are getting it wrong. We are not actually growing old, we are growing new.

I ask myself, will this use of my time make me happy? Will it help me to feel fulfilled? Will it be time well spent?

The parts of us that people see impacts how we are perceived. This fragmented reality, based on imperfect moments, is inherently flawed....

Can we be strong if we are also fragile? If we are prone to breaking, will it be too easy to be completely shattered? We equate strength...

Someday I will stop writing about isolation, but not today… In a lot of ways my journey through solitude continues. I’m alone less, but...

I long for things that are old—things with a past. Things with character, and a story—things that are built to last. I am drawn to things...

Someone came into my house and ran their fingers over my furnishings, leaving little snail trails in the dust that had settled. It felt...

Someone once told me when they looked at the world, they saw garbage. It was a jarring revelation—something I could not myself envision....

Life is like a tube of toothpaste. It’s hard to squeeze the last bit out. Sometimes it feels like we are on the outside squeezing the...

soul-o I am constantly being forced into solitary situations, and I don’t really understand why. After glimpses of normal socialization...

I stopped to look at a tree. I walk past it often, but this time it stretched out its branches like a warm embrace, and fluttered its...

It takes time to adjust to a new season, both figuratively and literally. I feel like we’ve come through a bit of a deep freeze; a long,...

Life can be hard sometimes. Even though there is so much to be thankful for, and many good things and positive people in the world,...

I am, at times, a coiled cobra, ready to strike. After too much time in the snake charmer’s basket, I can no longer resist the seductive...

I turn the crank and it plays a silly song. Even though you know what’s about to happen, it’s still a bit startling when the lid springs...

In order arrive somewhere new, we have to leave the place we were. This rings true as I reflect on a year of change and reinvention. I...

Life is an ongoing sequence of attempts to make things fit. We try to fit in with multiple kinds of people, places and things, hoping for...

Life can be…well…puzzling. It’s like a giant, complicated jigsaw puzzle. Just when we think we have it figured out, we realize we don’t....