Our monthly lunch & learns with our leadership program graduates is leaning more and more towards personal success practices rather than hardcore work topics. But topics like stress, and failure, and loneliness, and forming new habits, and managing your time are hardcore work topics. Whether we like it or not, we live integrated lives.
Rhyming for My Father
For my dad, on his birthday My dad taught me to write poems that rhyme So now I think of him every time And mark […]
Writing Update: Wild Oscillation
Writing update Tuesday! My story oscillates wildly from twisted family drama to queer teen romance and wow is that an interesting tone to balance. My […]
For the Earth
In honor of Earth Day. When I was sixteen I visited the Grand Canyon with my dad. We rode mules halfway to the bottom and […]
April 21st
I celebrate April 21st. I have for the last twelve years. I call it an unofficial self-care day. Or sometimes a celebration of me day. Or epiphany day. It’s meaning has changed over time.
A Feminist Self-Care Book Recommendation
I finished reading Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski this week and I can’t seem to shut up […]
Puppy Chow Magic
I don’t enjoy cooking or baking, but twice a year I make puppy chow. It’s an old habit. I actually remember the first time I […]
One Caring Adult
Yesterday I attended the annual Shining Stars Luncheon for Foster Angels of Central Texas. Foster Angels is an amazing local nonprofit that supports foster youth. […]
Writing Update: A Look at the Numbers
Inevitably if people find out you’re working on a novel (and I’m not necessarily being shy about it be posting internet updates each week) they ask what you’re going to do with it i.e. are you going to publish it?