Yes, Oui, Si!
Yes. Oui. Si. Yes, we see. 2012 is nearing an end. And with endings come new beginnings. If you are reading this post, you survived the end of the world as the Mayans knew it. And maybe as you knew it too. The holidays bring […]
Yes. Oui. Si. Yes, we see. 2012 is nearing an end. And with endings come new beginnings. If you are reading this post, you survived the end of the world as the Mayans knew it. And maybe as you knew it too. The holidays bring […]
For six days I visited the other side of the sky. It was blue. It was warm. It was family. It was about time. In the past decade since I’ve lived in Germany, I have not seen my family around the holidays. But this year […]
The fifth graders swarmed around me after my hour-long interactive creative writing presentation yesterday. They wanted me to autograph their papers they had used to record the collective story all sixty-eight of them wrote together with me. One girl even asked if I might sign […]
Resilience is a great quality. My mom has it. No matter what life throws at her, she either ducks, jumps or swims along. My sister is similar. That girl’s got bounce. I wasn’t so sure I possessed much bounce until my family recently reminded me […]
Quotables are one of my favorite things to pass along to people. They are pithy, hit home, and motivate us to get through the day. As an end-of-the-year round up, I thought I’d compile some of my favorite quotes that crossed my path in 2012. […]
Today is tomorrow’s memory. But because we never can be certain that tomorrow will ever come, it is better to make the best of now. My aunt subscribes to the “use your best every day” rule. She insists on using silver and china for the […]
Back before video games overtook children’s minds, there were such leisure activities as bowling and roller skating. The biggest thrill a sixth grade girl could have was to hold hands with an older boy who knew how to do crossovers on skates while never, ever […]
Do you have a place to house your secrets? Mine live with the trees and in the mirrors of places I’ve been. I speak my thoughts to those things, hanging them on limbs and smearing them across glass, smooth and soft like the inside of […]
As we near the end of this most tumultuous year, I am reminded of how it began ~ in the sleepy, quiet night of a Swiss German valley with a champagne toast amongst the snowflakes that fell. New Year’s Eve holds many promises of future […]
“The world breaks everyone And afterwards Many are strong at the broken places.” ~ Ernest Hemingway Brené Brown, the so-called shame researcher, blew me away again. In her second TED talk, she expounds on what shame is…and what it is not. Shame is not guilt. […]