Apr 10 2020
I’ve had a really hard time even getting out of bed and couldn’t figure out why. I’m normally the Pollyanna. Usually I’d be the one writing funny blogs or making videos to cheer everyone up and yet, lately, it’s been all I could do to get out of bed.
Feb 28 2020
Fundamentally, the speed of our lives isn’t allowing enough interstitial time—code for REST BREAKS—for us to process all the influx. Downtime, particularly quiet time, is critical for us to make sense of all the information we’ve ‘taken in.’
Feb 17 2020
Story power is real! Stories bridge gaps legislation can’t. Why? Because stories allow us to empathize and understand another perspective in a way like no other. We can be another gender, race, or species!
Sep 06 2018
First of all, I’d like to dedicate this blog post to Mrs. Barbara Bender who taught my high school sophomore year American Literature class. It wasn’t that the reading selections were all that riveting, or that we had any kind of “Oh, Captain, my captain,” kind of moments. What made the class so pivotal in …
Aug 13 2018
I think there’s one thing we can all agree about: it’s pretty awful that life doesn’t have a pause button when it comes to things like death and grief. One of the things that Kristen always says (I call them Lamb’s Laws) is that real writers don’t wait for all the stars to align, perfect …
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