Time goes too fast. My brain goes too fast. Not in keeping with time. My body wants to go slow. AND fast!! To sleep. To RUN!! To lay under the stars and slooowwww doooowwwnn. I don’t feel like time is my own. At the whims of everyone else’s demands on…

It seems as though spirals are the nature of the universe. For most of my life I thought the earth moved in a circle. Recently I learned that the earth moves in a spiral. We are rotating around the sun as the sun is also moving through space. …

What if we’re already there? — When I was in my early twenties I had, what up until that moment was, the worst week of my life. My assistant manager at Starbucks went missing in an avalanche. She’d been hiking with a friend. The whole time she’d been in the lead, but towards the end they…

I have been spending more time lately getting to know my plant and animal neighbors. It’s helped me feel a lot less lonely during this lengthy time of pandemic isolation. Lately I have become captivated by squirrels. I think it all started one day when I was out on a…

I realized the other day that I have a hard time receiving. I don’t want to admit when I need help. I don’t want to ask for it. When I do ask for it, I live in dread that people will offer it out of pity and then resent me. …

PMS this month has been a roller coaster. Some emotions, but mostly cravings. For three days I could not get out of my mind these blondies that Great Harvest Bread Company makes. I had one for the first time several weeks ago and it was amazing!! And I couldn’t stop…

I am currently reading the Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron. A guided encounter with your own creativity. It is life-changing. One of the assignments is to have weekly Artist’s Dates with your inner artist. So, a few weeks back my inner artist and I decided to make things out of…

My relationship with money is shifting. For years I’ve had this scarcity mindset around money. Afraid there wouldn’t be enough. Taking whatever crappy job I could get to make sure I had what I needed, but just barely. …

(Trigger warnings — PTSD, panic attacks, sexual abuse) For years I couldn’t put any words to this experience — the experience of having PTSD. It’s still a challenge. PTSD struggles and fights against being captured in language. Perhaps that’s because the very parts of the brain that process language go…