I Know How to Comfort Myself. But I Wish I Didn’t Have to.
I’ve never quite gotten the hang of comforting myself. It’s not for lack of trying. Not for lack of practice. It’s strange, really, since I’ve been
I’ve never quite gotten the hang of comforting myself. It’s not for lack of trying. Not for lack of practice. It’s strange, really, since I’ve been
“You know,” I say to my friend. “I think 12-year-old me would be pretty impressed with how my life is going.” I have cats. My
In another piece, I talked about midlife crisis. But I didn’t dive as deeply into it as I probably should have. I stayed on the
I mentioned this a bit in an earlier post, but one of the most helpful things I ever did was to stop worrying if I
“You got your creativity from me,” my mother says. “Your father was good at many things, but he didn’t have a creative bone in his
It hit me a few weeks ago when I was looking at the prayer cards from my father’s funeral. When my father died, he stopped
You lost someone you love. Stop looking for a reason and start thinking about the meaning you are going to assign to that event. Steve Case,
“I want attention,” I tell him, arms outstretched. And as he wraps me up into a hug, I can feel his laughter reverberating through both
We don’t talk about it enough. But it’s hard to be single. And not just because of the constant pressure from other people who are
I have a big announcement to make. My new book is finally out. It’s called Psychic City, and it’s a slipstream murder mystery that features an
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