Yesterday I was sitting in my green chair, trying to work, texting my sister, wishing I had better hair — all the usual distractions, and (of course) not working. I wrote this text: I think I need a therapist. Then the phone rang. It was my friend M, who happens to be a therapist. Maybe […]
I was thinking of this quote yesterday when I wrote my blogpost. Not sure that it entirely fits, but here it is. (Quoted by Louise DeSalvo) “In the absence of any record of my illness, I shall write it myself. Invent it out of whole cloth. It is what a writer can do that a […]
This week, in an exercise with Brené Brown, I had to narrow down my values — from a pretty big, extremely inclusive list of words such as compassion, justice, love, connection, fun, friendship, exercise — and I had to narrow it down to just two values. After a lot of waffling, I chose creativity and family. These are the […]
Is meandery a word? Well, meandering. That’s my mind lately. I’ve been on a no-holds-barred quest since about mid-December to figure out how to work. And, like Tolkien’s wanderers, I’m not lost. So, what do I mean by figuring out how to work? I know how to work, of course. My first paying job came at age ten […]