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Thoughts on the elevator

The only words I spoke during the weeklong silent retreat I attended in March were to Wendy C., the woman who read my Akashic Records. Sitting across an…

Apr 27 •

November 2022

Thoughts on elections: part one

When I was 24 years old, a few months before I got married in a courthouse in Norwalk, CA, I was working my first post-grad school job as a grant writer…

Nov 1, 2022 •

June 2022

Thoughts on the goddesses

I was going to write a newsletter titled “Thoughts on ‘are we ok’?” but it would have just been one word - No. And I know you’re paying good money for…

Jun 21, 2022 •

March 2022

Thoughts on reunions

On the night before our 20th high school reunion (delayed a year, as all things were), in the back garden of my classmate’s parent’s house, after a…

Mar 24, 2022 •

January 2022

Thoughts on "better"

About a month ago, in the brief interlude between Delta and Omicron, I went to the city with two of my best friends for our annual (minus 2020…

Jan 1, 2022 •

October 2021

Thoughts on Mr. Grits

My cat was a legend. An icon. A king. He made cat haters say, “this is the only cat I’ve ever liked.” Dog lovers would nod approvingly as he played…

Oct 6, 2021 •

July 2021

Thoughts on retreat

It’s a sunny warm day in early May, and I’m on the Long Island Railroad headed east, all the way east, to Montauk, where I’ve rented an Airbnb to…

Jul 7, 2021 •

May 2021

Thoughts on Defunding the Police

I started thinking about writing about this the day Derek Chauvin was convicted and Ma’Khia Bryant was murdered. And then I had a very hard conversation…

May 6, 2021 •

March 2021

Thoughts on the pace of progress

The last two weeks have been horrific and traumatic. A white terrorist killed eight people in Atlanta, six of whom were Asian women, in what was…

Mar 31, 2021 •

Thoughts on silence

Slow your eye roll. I am not about to tell you, bedraggled war-torn soldiers of the ‘20s, that what you need is a hot 5 to 60 minutes of meditative…

Mar 4, 2021 •

February 2021

Thoughts on "self-care"

Well moms, the jig is up! We’ve been revealed as broken husks of humans, barely clinging to sanity, let alone finding time for a shower. This week the…

Feb 10, 2021 •

January 2021

Thoughts on Schools

I’m writing to you from the magical land of Maplewood, NJ…ever heard of it? Maybe you, like I and 10,000 other families, stumbled across this piece and…

Jan 29, 2021 •

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