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

stillness is a lie, my dear
Things with a steep learning curve frustrate me, so this year, I tried to push myself past that.
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?
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?
I sat down to write about my garden, but what I ended up with was something very different.
In the coming years, we can only keep our integrity if we establish what integrity means.
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.
Farewell, 2016, and not a minute too soon.
2016 was a terrible, no good, very bad year. Let’s make it the low point, not the high point.
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, the cat who loved hats, knitting, and spreading across furniture.