Finding the Courage to be Disliked

Finding the Courage to be Disliked I recently rented a lakehouse with a group of people. I was going to say “friends” … and they are friends … but they’re not yet what I would consider my friends. Not all of them, at least. They’re my boyfriend’s friends,...

Why and When You Shouldn’t Create

Why and When You Shouldn’t Create Are you okay with the time it takes to create?   I don’t know how to be (and I can’t conceive of becoming) the person who’s okay with just sitting and letting herself write whenever she wants. It’s always been my affair, my...

Hack Your Emotions with Action

Hack Your Emotions with Action Returning from a recent vacation has me feeling flattened out.   There are too many things to do, too many people with whom I haven’t followed up, too many people who haven’t followed up with me. Poor me, I know.   I’ve been...

The Big “Wait” Before Work

The Big “Wait” Before Work I want … something.    A voice in my head tells me to pause, to wait before doing something “professional” with my day because something else needs to happen first. But I don’t know what, and can’t know what.    I want to wait...

Human Doing or Human Being?

Human Doing or Human Being? Life has been weird lately. Not because anything’s happening, but because of the opposite.   Nothing is happening.   For the first time since an early-20s gleefully unemployed phase, I don’t have anything to work on, I don’t have to...