Category: Wellness
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After Irma. What Now?
Natural disasters, if not fatal, are often defining moments. Turning points. Do you muster the strength to start anew? What do you learn? How do you grow?
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A Week Without Netflix
Urban Dictionary defines “fasting” as the following: Fasting (v.) – A cleaning way of de-toxing your body of unwanted stuff. I need to detox. Clear out my Star Trek cache and sweat out a lot of backed up episodes of U.K. crime shows. Gotta get ot the unhealthy stuff… at least Monday – Thursday.
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Tally Taught Me
A trip to the state capital has proven to be much more impactful than the 5th grade field trip version.
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#LFTU Deliberate Action
The mode is the number you see most. Maybe there are some universal lessons that keep appearing and throwing off your average!
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Part-Time Lover
How do you go from no hours a week to 40+? What’s the cheat code? Lot’s of bathroom breaks? Coffee?
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Thug-olutions: New Year, Essentially the Same Me
I’m a thug [read emotionally intelligent and proactively self aware individual]. Thugs don’t make resolutions. They are everyday attempting to review and renew in order to rise from their ashes and reveal and shiny new self [see also Phoenix]. Thugs don’t wait until January 1st. CLEARLY they wait until The 5th! In my defense, I…
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The Upside(s) of Unemployment
Never in six million light years did I think this day would come. But alas, at the end of every tunnel is … no more tunnel. Here I am, about to end my jobless dry-spell and I almost wish it wasn’t over. Let me set the scene… For the last few months I’ve been couch…
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Are You Happy?
I am not unhappy. Moderately depressed from time to time, yes, but not UNhappy. I don’t shun smiles or darken my windows with black velvet curtains while considering tattooing on my eyeliner (although that would save me time). I just refuse to lie. There’s nothing wrong with being unhappy, so turn your smile upside down if that’s what you…
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Ars Nova
Sometimes I forget that I asked for these responsibilities. Sometimes I’m almost ungrateful to have so many gifts and so many doors before me. Sometimes I’m so short-sighted, so foolhardy that I ache for fewer paths, fewer talents, a simpler life. Then it hits me. That no one else could bear this, could hold this…