May 15, 2025 Good morning, my friends! We’ve all been there - squashed under a landslide of “what-ifs” and “worst-case scenarios.” I would almost describe this sensation as being relentlessly attacked by hundreds of sparrows; swooping in from all sides, scratching your face with their twiggy feet, and plucking at your hair with their itty-bitty beaks. Under the hurricane of winged chaos, there’s you, reduced to the fetal position, shielding your face with one arm and lamely swatting away the...

April 15, 2025 Good morning, my friends! In everyone’s life, at some time, momentum slows to a crawl, life stacks up, a sepia-filter seems to overlay everything, and smiling becomes downright exhausting. Mundane . . . uneventful . . . windless and sunless . . . bland. Days on days, limply strung together. In a sense, nothing is out of sorts–I mean, I’m fine! And though I can’t pinpoint what's wrong, something seems to be missing. I feel devoid of pep and purpose. The joy feels zapped out of...

March 15, 2025Good morning, my friends! I love lists! Grocery lists, lists of favorite songs and books, lists of tiny moments that blossomed into favorite memories. . . but making to-do lists is my security-tick. When I feel anxious, I whip out the closest paper, dig out a pen, and vigorously dump my wild brain out into a line of bullet-pointed tasks. Imagine the same intensity that a hyperventilating person sucks air in and out of a paper bag. . . that is what I do with my list-making tick....