I’m Afraid to Post This
weheartit.com My chest feels tight. My stomach has the wobblies. It scares me to say these things out loud, in public. I’m afraid that people who know me will pity me. I’m afraid that people who don’t know me will roll…
weheartit.com My chest feels tight. My stomach has the wobblies. It scares me to say these things out loud, in public. I’m afraid that people who know me will pity me. I’m afraid that people who don’t know me will roll…
Things got bad in NorCal during the past two weeks. Very bad. But in response to all the bad, a number of people — many, many people — did a lot of good things. Very good things. And they’re still…
wired.com For the first time in a week, my husband and I woke up to clear skies this morning. We could barely smell the smoke, a reeking, breath-robbing blanket that has settled over us since Sunday night. Molly the dog got…
ignatianspirituality.com What is it about beginning something that is so fraught? Especially, very most especially, a writing project. For me, beginning a big writing project comes more heavily freighted with angst than the other beginnings one normally associates with stress: a…
For the Current Occupant — and I’m sure this is true for leaders of other nations, at least the noisier and nominally democratic ones — there is a daily, running calculation of how many of his subjects constituents approve of his…