20 things to know about death & grief

20 things to know about death & grief

Death is fecund and fertile, a space of giving way to the new, the bouyant, the growth of spring. Death is also tearing, rending and life shaking. Things to know about Death: 1. It may not look like you expect it to. 2. There’s the death that is obvious –...
On being (almost) run over by a big truck

On being (almost) run over by a big truck

It was a Friday night, I needed to get outside, so I took a quick walk to the grocery store closest to my house – about four blocks away. I stopped at the streetlights. When the walk sign went on, I started across the mostly empty street. I’ve had enough close...
Releasing the Chinese finger trap of Trying (with a capital T)

Releasing the Chinese finger trap of Trying (with a capital T)

The first time I was introduced to a Chinese finger trap I was a child. Encouraged by a more worldly friend, I innocently put my index fingers into the flimsy woven straw tube and then pulled to get them out. However, the light tug to release my fingers only served to...

Facing Fear: even more procrastination

Why is it that the more I work towards realizing my creative dreams, the stronger my fear becomes? Since writing about procrastination a month ago, I’ve encountered a few more versions of it. It’s insidious and exhausting, and seems to be accompanied by paralyzing...

Facing fear: procrastination

I’ve been revisited by the fear monkey in a serious way. A while ago I wrote about how I slowed down action on my decision to buy a printer because of fear. How that slowing down led to having to wait for more printers to come into stock because I went into London...