Are you going back? Not to the office or a bad marriage. You can make those decisions on your own. What I want to know is this: are you going …
The Truth About Compassion
People are hurting. Every time I open Facebook (which isn’t all that often these days) I see more entries in the “Hey, I’m hurting, too!” ledger. Now I’m not making …
“I Was Bad Today”: Debunking the False Morality of Food
Food has no morality. No soul. No divine status. And it can’t convey any morality. There are no holy avocados or unholy fries. Just a plethora of phrases surrounding food …
Fight the Algorithms
Fight the algorithms. You are more than a collection of your likes. You are more than what you could buy with money. How ridiculous that concept is anyhow. How insulting. …
Don’t Lose Yourself to the Bitterness
We’ve turned into such a bitter culture, addicted to our own seething rage even as it hurts us, as it burns us, as it destroys us.
Heat Is Not Weakness
Being cold does not make you a better person. You might like being cold – I often do because it perks me up and makes me feel more alive than …
Podcast: Hit Play, Not Pause
The muscle between your ears is what keeps you going when the going gets hard. The opposite is true, too. When life is kicking your ass, being physically strong helps you muster the mental strength you need to persevere.
I Don’t Ever Feel Bad After Doing It
All I know is that after all the miles on bikes and all the pounds lifted, I never felt bad after doing it. Not once. Every effort brought its own reward, every single time. In moving myself, I somehow lifted my soul.
16 Pairs of Shoes (The Pandemic Diaries)
I’m not going to write about what the pandemic took from me. It took so much from all of us.
To write about what we have lost is like trying to catch a waterfall. Your hands can only hold so much.
But I’d be a liar if I said the pandemic didn’t give to us.
The Year of a Thousand Days
This is the Year of Thousand Days … but we’re still here. And that’s pretty damn beautiful, darling.