About this time last year, COVID-19 began sneaking its way into San Diego, forcing us into the unfamiliar isolation and halting pace of a shelter-in-place. To remind us we weren’t alone in the weirdness (and to some degree, scariness) of […]
The complexity of grief is that we are dually grieving both a first and second loss. The first loss is what sets us grieving in the first place – cancer snatching our sister too soon, the cruel and unnecessary homicide […]
We are nearly four weeks into 2020, the time when new year’s resolutions may be starting to fade, and I, for one, am already feeling a bit weary, and it seems much too soon for that. In the few short […]
In celebration of my twenty-sixth lap around the sun, I hopped on a plane to Kansas City to soak up 72 hours of autumn leaves, falling snow, and the people who transformed the midwest into a second home. After a […]
The temperature will soon be dropping to propel the trees into their best show of the year, as their transitioning leaves invite us to pause and look up. The iced beverages that have been providing us relief from the summer […]
“If you were walking through an alley and four men came at you from the shadows and beat you up so badly that you ended up in the hospital, you would be on hyper-alert every time you walked through an […]
Dear Rylie, One minute you are feeling seen and known, and the next you are wondering if any human being anywhere in the world at any point in time has ever loved you at all. Why are you believing this […]
Plant both feet firmly on the ground. Go ahead, feel the soles of your feet greeting the earth, and take a deep breath in, the biggest breath you have taken all day, and imagine a place or scenario where you […]
I have been holding my breath for a long time. Know the feeling? Of trying to gain some control, Fearful of whatever could possibly come barreling around the corner to run you over next, Avoiding the deep inhale and freeing […]
Today is my 25th birthday, and as a writer (and an over-thinker), I usually spend some time in November reflecting on all of the wonderful life lessons that I learned in that year. But this year I am staring at […]
