The Gentle Goodbye: Embracing Clean Endings In Life
2024 was the year I embraced the art of the clean goodbye —free of regret, pain, and drama. Why do we make goodbyes so complicated? (Audio included)
2024 was the year I embraced the art of the clean goodbye —free of regret, pain, and drama. Why do we make goodbyes so complicated? (Audio included)
A medical appointment brings up insights about vulnerability, age, class and socializing. And this is before I even go through the door.
You’re out to dinner on Friday night. It’s nothing exciting, nothing new. Till you look over to the next table.
You’re out to dinner on Friday night. It’s nothing exciting, nothing new. Till you look over to the next table. Read ‘FRIDAY NIGHT NOSTALGIA‘ here.
What are the consequences of cheating? What does infidelity do to us and where do we go from there?
My journey through Valentine’s Days is full of bloody warfare, dangerous laughter, cold money and seething rage. What was it like today?
Let the waves comeLet the winds blowLet me be soaked, burnt, frozenTrampled by every manner of foe Let the shouts riseLet the voices echoLet there be slogans, insults, criesAnd words that land like blows I will melt, I will breakI will drown, I will searI will bear every wound &…
A friend’s admission about being shamed made me think. All shaming is bullying. What does it mean to be shameless?
Returning to a book I first read nearly a decade ago made me think about how many times I truly had that last chance.
At some point, you have to let go of the people who you think healed you because they’re no more than crutches. Maybe you needed them once but letting them go is part of growth. There is no glory in suffering, no love in neediness. Shared pain is an opportunity,…