Prepare yourself for a second year with fewer fails. — I LOVE CHANGE Correction. I love change that I choose. I’ve found this year has challenged me in ways I couldn’t imagine, and I have a pretty vivid imagination. …

Assess your pandemic persona and learn to navigate your emotional landscape with more certainty. — I would love for someone to roll out a map and confidently point to a spot that says “You are Here”. This feels like a reasonable request that would go a long way to calming my inner dialogue, and yet no map materializes. So I create my own, one that…

Take stock of your newfound survival habits and how a global pandemic requires your most vulnerable self. — We are in it. Many of us began this week with a growing awareness and ended it in a long line at the grocery store stocking up on frozen vegetables, canned beans or in my case; wine. There are a lot (billions) of articles examining the depth of this crisis…

Some time around 1940, priority was pluralized by some overzealous achiever and you’ve been behind ever since. —

I’ve written several open letters to cancer starting in January 2010, October 2011 and then in 2012, when I literally became the one in three who didn’t have the disease. I’ve learned while cancer doesn’t really give a shit, there are many other people in the world that do care…

I think about writing a lot. I own almost every book on writing, from “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott, to “On Writing” by Stephen King. In a last ditch effort, I shamefully added “Creative Writing for Dummies” to my collection. …