Things with a steep learning curve frustrate me, so this year, I tried to push myself past that.
On doing things we’re bad at
Category: reflections
Footsteps at the knife’s edge
Sometimes survival is more complicated than people will ever know; should we fault people for not surviving, or fault ourselves for failing to help them?
To grow, to issue
The changing of the seasons is weighted with metaphor, including when it comes to the future of the United States. Will the country survive to bloom next year?
In the garden: It’s coming…
I sat down to write about my garden, but what I ended up with was something very different.
A letter to my future self
In the coming years, we can only keep our integrity if we establish what integrity means.
What they can take from you
There are many things they can take from us, but our integrity does not have to be one of them. Be righteous, for it does not pay to be timid.
It’s been a real dumpster fire, 2016
Farewell, 2016, and not a minute too soon.
This is not normal
2016 was a terrible, no good, very bad year. Let’s make it the low point, not the high point.
A long, dark year
Every year, I tell myself that this year is going to be better. This will be the year when things turn around — and on New Year’s Eve, I think about what ‘turning around’ looks like, and how at the end of the next year I will be able to look back on happy and […]
Remembering Mr. Shadow
Remembering Mr. Shadow, the cat who loved hats, knitting, and spreading across furniture.