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What Do You Value?
Back in my blogging heyday, I was lucky enough to see Brene Brown speak, at Blissdom (Find Your Bliss!) in Nashville in 2011. She talked...
What's in the News?
One of the ways that I try to control my anxiety is by limiting my exposure to the news. I am a J-school grad so I can't just bury my...
Songs of Summer
Those three supercharged months—marked by freedom and possibility and some life-changing moment of love or lust or longing for something...
Eww, David.
Taking a break from telling my stories to sing the praises of an amazing story I just enjoyed on television. So many of my friends...
Kill Your Heroes
In the early 2000s, I worked at a PR agency that was owned by a local Democratic elected official. One morning as I was driving to work,...
Bomb Fires
When I was a kid, I thought they were called Bomb Fires. That was before we moved to the Mississippi Coast where fires on the beach were...
Tell Me a Story
Tell me a story. In this century, and moment, of mania, tell me a story. Make it a story of great distances, and starlight. The name of...
What's Next?
My short list of all-time favorite television shows include The West Wing and Sesame Street. There are many shows I like a lot and...
Big Hugs to All Y'all
If the world-wide pandemic doesn't get you, the unsurvivable storm surge will. At some point you start to feel like everything in the...
At a loss
Last year at Christmastime, my husband said to me that he thought, given how volatile the President can be, and the coming year being an...
