Today I offer a musing on my experience with depression. I struggled with a severe bout of depression in my later teens and twenties, and the experience and how pieces of depression are part of me continue to inform my…
The Sum of Past Choices
Consider: Today is merely the sum of past choices. (Thanks for this reminder, Jeanne Loehnis!) If you don’t like how the view looks today, the great news is that you can choose differently — beginning right now. Start with your…
Falling in Sicily
A story for today’s food for thought. Recently an old gymnastics memory came to mind, probably because I’d found a reference to this specific meet when I was looking through a photo album the previous week. I was around 15…
Keep Them Happy
Today’s food for thought is a writing in the space of looking outside of ourselves for validation. Growing up, I learned that I had to keep them happy. KEEP THEM HAPPY. That was my mantra. Keep them all happy. Them…