Archive - Thoughts on Things*

Thoughts on the pandemic

For the first few weeks, I dreaded the dusk.

Mar 13 •

February 2025

Thoughts on building a fire

In early December I went to Montauk with my best friends, to celebrate a birthday.

Feb 25 •

January 2025

Thoughts on the party before the end

I got norovirus two days before Trumps’s second inauguration.

Jan 20 •

November 2024

Thoughts on the Trump years

You were a young mother when he was elected.

Nov 5, 2024 •

June 2024

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.

Jun 4, 2024 •

December 2023

Thoughts on our children

I was driving one evening near my apartment in Red Hook, Brooklyn when I came to a stop sign.

Dec 31, 2023 •

August 2023

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…

Aug 31, 2023 •

April 2023

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, 2023 •

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 -

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 •

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