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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…
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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…
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Thoughts on what I've learned
When I was 27 years old I was invited to an annual convening called Authentic Leadership in Action, led by the friends and followers of Chogyam Trungpa…
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Thoughts on elections: part two
Today when my neighbors in Maplewood’s 8th district go to vote, they’ll see my name on the ballot.
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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…
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Thoughts on building a fire
In early December I went to Montauk with my best friends, to celebrate a birthday.
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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 -
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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…
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Thoughts on Schools
I’m writing to you from the magical land of Maplewood, NJ…ever heard of it?
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Thoughts on our children
I was driving one evening near my apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn when I came to a stop sign.
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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…
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Thoughts on Mr. Grits
My cat was a legend.
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