When Dickens set up his novel The Tale of Two Cities with his famous line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of time….”, he may have well been describing December. December. A month filled with a myriad of emotion. For some, it’s their favorite time of year, for others their least. For some, a time of …
The Lesson of Space
I did something I’ve actually never done before (unless it came after birthing a baby). I took 6 whole weeks off. Last March I had the sense that I needed to take a chunk of time off this summer to write and create space in my life. I bounced the idea around in my head for weeks but usually …
Universal Smackdown
Universal Smackdown. This is how my girlfriend described my life during these past months. I think of it as a wake-up call, a mid-life splash of water on the face, a call to change. A cluster of strange physical symptoms started in late summer, primarily a deep fatigue that felt like a 50 pound weight around my neck. My typically …