I couldn’t believe it! [Curse word.] I was already tired and having a hard time getting the mojo to go after the high intensity workout I wanted my body to do [without my conscious awareness] and now the blasted DVD sound wasn’t coming out of […]
Little Guy Integrity
As it happened, Casper the box bed company was running a limited time sale the weekend we found out our friends, Christine and Sam, would be visiting at the end of October. The sale was great timing because of the two twins we have in […]
House: A Framework for Holding it Together
The framework I describe here is a process for remaining intact amidst all that comes at us over the course of a day, a week, a month, a lifetime. Every morning, we wake up and set about our day. In the hours to come we […]
Tap Tap Tap
I couldn’t believe it when I read the New York Time’s headline. I knew it. Gluteal amnesia, aka “Dead Butt Syndrome,” is a real thing. I’ve been going around for years polling family, friends and physical therapists about whether they engaged their glutes when they […]
House: A Framework for Holding it Together
Every morning, we wake up and set about our day. In the hours to come we will experience a continuous stream of pressures testing our in-the-moment soundness of mind and body. For example: Minimal pressure: You’re walking down the street and come to a crosswalk. […]
Little Luxuries
When you think of luxury, what does that word bring to mind for you? It instantly gets me thinking about 2,000 thread count sheets and a mattress that feels like sleeping on a cloud. The time and ease of mind to luxuriate in them. Food […]
Holding Your Seat
I hear shouting coming from inside the courtroom then a girl bangs through the doors with the bailiff striding after her. She’s furious. “I told him I didn’t know my phone was on, but he wouldn’t listen!” I’m sitting on a bench outside the courtroom […]
Making Room for the Unwanted
Some new neighbors moved into the neighborhood a few weeks ago. They are loud. They disturb the peace. They set off firecrackers. Illegally. I regarded this as a big problem. I wanted the old neighbors back, the formerly invisible ones. These new ones need to […]
Fountain of Youth
If ever there was a fountain of youth, I think squats would be it. If you’re young or even young-ish, it’s hard to conceptualize the day coming for you in which an intangible underlying buoyancy is no longer there to boost you up steps and […]
Cat or Dog?
Growing up, we were a cat family. This didn’t work out well for my younger brother, John, who was a dog person through and through. He solved the problem by simply pretending Winklemeyer was a dog. He never once let up on the claim. Much […]
Coming Back to Our Senses
Being able to navigate the overwhelming nature of distress is complicated by the way it focuses our attention right down to a pinpoint, confining us to a very small parcel of real estate in our mind. In this reduced space our entire field of vision […]
Three Good Things
I’m writing this while under the influence of a meager five hours of sleep which means I am seriously under-resourced. (Not my fault; I gave a full 8-hour allotment my best shot.) Five hours may sound like a bonanza of sleep for some* but at […]
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