Patience & Fortitude

What DO you want, anyway?

I think the most treacherous trip-up in the world to someone looking to improve her/his life is to spend lots of time focusing what they don’t want, don’t like, or fear.* In writing this, I realized there are three separate issues going on which I want to...

To hell with my resume

In October, 2010, I stumbled across my resume folder on my computer. Clearly there is something inherently evil about April, as the last five resume drafts were all created in May. Over and over, every few years in May (after losing my job-du-jour in April) I would...

Grieving Futures, post #2

Authoria: Another excerpt from my book, Grieving Futures. Once a week I am posting a section from it, in sequential order. ~~~~~~~~~~~ INTRODUCTION, part 2: I have found books over the years about losing parents aimed towards young children and alternately towards...

Hope for Tomorrow

Sometimes I stay up late – really late. I’m so tired my eyes water but I force myself to stay up, distracting myself with nonsense. It hurts, and I hate it, but it’s a hard habit to break. When I get squirrelly in the evening, I know it’s going to be one of those...

REC Saturday: Arlynda Boyer

A few weeks ago I posted about the idea of “a safe place to break”, where you sometimes don’t actually deal with a traumatic life experience until much later when you have arrived at a place or time that is safe. That idea originated with a fellow New College alum and...