It’s not enough to work hard.  Hard work will put money in your bank account and heavy wear on the cartilage in your knees, but it will not put food in your belly, warmth in your bed, nor sleep behind your eyes. You are a delicate animal with many needs that are difficult to manage. […]

“We all experience long workdays; it’s almost an inevitability!  How we choose to unwind can be the difference between perpetuating the burnout versus being a bit more relaxed.  I like to encourage people to find activities that are energizing rather than numbing.  Some people lean into self medication with substances, alcohol, binge watching shows, or […]

Maybe you’re still in school. Maybe you just graduated. Maybe you’re just trying to learn absolutely anything before the neurons in your brain start firing wrong. We are all beginners somewhere. But sometimes the experience of being a beginner can be so discouraging, frightening, and unpredictable that we avoid learning for all its joy and […]

The calendar has made its sweet time getting here, but it is finally summer. We live in St. Petersburg, Florida. The sun is shining. It’s blue skies and ocean water that feels like stepping into a bath. We live where people vacation.  But our suffering doesn’t end just because we’re in a beautiful place at […]

Grief. It is the great infectious sickness that accompanies death in all its forms. We can run as much as we’d like, but it always catches up with us. As we process our losses, it can feel like something that we need to escape with the urgency we’d attend to a hot brand on our […]

We want to make a sandcastle, but we don’t want to see it washed away by the tide. As fun as it can be to build something that can withstand the indignity of time, the process can drive you mad.  We don’t want to rebuild. We want to make something that will last. But time […]

There are times that our work (for one reason or another) becomes so difficult and distasteful to us that we consider quitting. This is true no matter what you went to school for. This is true no matter how much money you make. We spend roughly one third of our lives on this earth working. […]

Our pets bring joy and responsibility into our lives, often when we need it the most. They greet us at the door, sit beside us in silence, and love us without condition or expectation. We come to rely on them in ways we don’t always fully understand… until they’re gone. Our time together is beautiful, […]

If it’s our business to pursue something (and it is), then we will inevitably face setbacks. There’s no river yet discovered without a bend or a curve somewhere along the way, and when we travel on the river of desire, the twists and turns are every bit as important as the final destination.  But there […]

Some things just don’t go our way. And sometimes they just continue to not go our way for such a long time that it may start to feel like things have never gone our way before and never will again. It’s our responsibility to maintain hope in the presence of fate’s uncertainty. So when fortune […]