Four Words designed to ‘disturb the universe’ of me
I have spent my life being a mouthpiece for other people. That is not a bad thing in my world. It’s been a clear vocation for me since I was …
Love in the age of comparison: Raising a human to feel, to fight, to survive
In many ways the human mind seems to have a bias against itself. Here’s what I mean: when confronted with a comparison of oneself to another person, we automatically err …
Gimme, gimme: Less stuff, more spirit
How do you feel about presents? I tend to like them. My favorite categories: Surprise ones. In-honor-of-no-occasion variety. Simple and tremendously thoughtful type. My least favorite short-term but most favorite …
An Excellence Addict calls her own bullsh*t
First, a positive thing. I would like to think in my forty-plus years I have gotten good at taking my time and trusting my process before I commit to something. …
Who Do I Think I Am Fooling?
About a week ago, my husband and I were having some wedding-anniversary inspired downtime by a pool. We were discussing destinations we would love to travel to someday soon. I …
The Magic of Three Hundred and Sixty of Something
Three-hundred and sixty of something is mostly a lot. Particularly when the thing you’re measuring are collections of days. Days being 24 hours tied together under a paired collection of …
What Defeat Has Taught Me
6 Ideas I’m Carrying Forward A good friend recently asked me what I learned in 2017 that would be most helpful in the coming year. It got me thinking about …
The Life We See Through This Screen
Do you ever think, “this world was not meant to be viewed through a screen?” I had that thought recently. That thought came when I was looking at the world …
Haste Makes Waste
It was fifth grade and I had the toughest teacher in the school, Miss Tang. She was strict, she was stern. She had a method for everything and you obeyed …
The Most Terrifying Question You Could Ask You
What does it mean to Opt In? (<- This is not the question.) In my work as co-founder of Root + River, my fellow co-founder, Justin Foster, and I talk a lot …