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Reaching my True Potential
We don’t have TV at home, but it seems when we travel and my son eagerly goes to the Cartoon Network, I have to watch Ninjago — a brilliant scheme in merchandising where the Ninjago lego sets come to...
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A Letter to My Older Self
I have no idea what it’s like to inch toward your last 10, 20, or 30 years. But people I love dearly are right there, right now, and I like to empathize and imagine it in my own life. I want to be...
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Creepy and Awesome
As a writer, I often think, “Who really cares what I write? I’m just entertaining people with a story and taking them away from everyday life.” Then again, I do hope maybe they’ll think a little...
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The Nones – Enlightened Masses or Apathetic Poll Subjects?
“One-fifth of the U.S. public – and a third of adults under 30 – are religiously unaffiliated today, the highest percentages ever in Pew Research Center polling.” Every time Pew runs this study,...
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I Hate Well Dressed Crowds
I’ve been thinking about my social fears and discomfort lately and trying to brainstorm ways to overcome it. In particular, there’s an event Saturday night at work I’m dreading. I’m starting to realize...
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What Do You Write?
Photo by Andrew Gray I used to say “Christian Fiction,” but I got tired of watching people back away figuring I was going to thump their head with a hidden Bible. Christianities, as my friend calls it,...
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Check This Out
Creepy Images From an Abandoned Bible Theme Park I need to write a story about someone who’s been living there since it closed, believing they’re Jesus Christ and they’ve completed the second coming....
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Does it Amount to Anything?
She Won. She became a landscaper. I believe American culture suffers from a product mentality. We are materialists at heart. Consumers. Goals, desires are often outside of ourselves and we’re on a...
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Honest Atheists
Love this article on New Atheism vs. the time honored Nietzsche and Camus and Larkin: http://theweek.com/article/index/241108/where-are-the-honest-atheists In addition to the authors insight that a...
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Thinking Through Forgiveness
We hurt each other a lot, unintentionally, with assumptions mostly or lack of empathy. But I’m not wondering about small injuries. Those are easy. Forgive. In relationships, those little things can...
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What Were you Thinking?
A friend, with 5 children who works full time, recently asked me why I decided to go back to work & volunteer extensively for school all while still obviously being a Mom. I could have asked her...
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My Son Watches Lots of Media. Here’s Why.
Child in Minecraft shirt. Playing Minecraft. I believe that too much “media,” as my son’s Waldorf School calls it, is a bad idea. Studies show it. It makes my kid somewhat restless afterwards and he...
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You Don’t Always Have to Be Right
Said to me by Sage. We were not having an argument. He was encouraging and comforting me after I expressed regret and embarrassment about two risks I took this summer — the purchase of the dino A class...
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Parent Thyself
Stop Eating Cookie Dough Little Missy. I stood over my kid as he freaked about long division. He was tired, hungry and had already done this problem 50 times in the past, but his brain was hiccupping...
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People Over 40 Don’t Do Resolutions
I am hard pressed to find anyone over age forty that makes New Year’s Resolutions. Or if we do, we mutter them quietly to ourselves in the shower on January first. I confirmed this suspicion recently...
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Your Unknown Value
What you do today matters in ways you could not possibly know. I believe The Gaia Principle (think butterfly wings affecting weather across the globe) applies to human social interactions. Each smile...
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The Truth about Money and Happiness
“Money Can’t Buy Happiness,” say folks mostly from the middle class. Rich and poor people know it grants tons of happiness and scientists also know it does… to a point. The point is about $75,000.00. I...
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Pay Your Kids for Chores
While you’re at it, pay your wife. No Pay? No Problem. She’ll Learn. Ron Lieber, the New York Times’ “Your Money” columnist and author of the new book The Opposite Of Spoiled, says don’t pay your kids...
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What Should I Be When I Grow Up?
Yeah, so my first world problems include this incredible fear of missing out of all my different potential selves and lives. Explained beautifully here at one of my all-time favorite blogs, Brain...
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