I’m not sure I am ready to write this, so that probably means it is time. I’m leapin...
“My mom always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you are going to ...
The other day, I had a conversation with someone about the hopes we had for our respective legacies....
Have you ever asked yourself why Rick James couldn’t bring his girl home to mother? Honestly, I hadn’t given it much thought until today. I assumed that his girl’s proclivity for kink made her unacceptable in some form or fashion to Rick’s mom. Me? I have always been of...
In her seminal book, The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron sets forth a method for maintaining a dynamic creative practice....
In her work on shame, Brene Brown talks about the concept of “foreboding joy” and how joy is one of the most difficult and vulnerable emotions we face. When I first heard her talk about the subject, she used an example of a parent standing over the crib...
Like most of my fellow Houstonians, I have been glued to social media looking for updates on the flooding and communicating with friends and family regarding their safety....
As Hurricane Harvey ravishes the Texas Gulf Coast, there is no doubt Mother Nature is a bad motherfucker. The swirling winds are terrifying and the rain continues to fall. I know the worst is yet to come in Houston. We are expected to have several more days of...
Throughout my education, but especially as a young child, school was always extremely easy for me. I had to put forth very little effort to excel....
"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end…” --Closing Time, Semisonic (1998)...
Well, ok, technically fear is a four-letter word. And, it even begins with the letter “f”. But, fear is a liar....
The first noble truth of Buddhism is generally translated as “life is suffering.” The Sanskrit term is actually dukkha, which does not have a direct analog in English. The term encapsulates a vast array of emotions, everything from happiness to despair. The point of this...
