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My smart phone is like a toddler that way: demanding constant attention, and whenever it helps me, it also seems to create more work.

Lowering the bar might mean the difference between wellness and burning out.

Words. It's what literature is made of. Literally.

I didn’t want it to be pretty, and I didn’t want to have to be pretty myself. The whole thing was a big hassle.”

Without clear warning, I’ll transform into the old crone, living alone in a small cabin in the woods, with only the crows to keep me company

The opportunity of offering a kindness to others amid our own turmoil can be a manner of restorative tonic.

The Poison Book Project, information that perhaps will save a bibliophile from visiting their own midnight library.

Then the magic happened. Listening and really recognizing the language gave me a little taste of what was important.

Expecting people to multitask is akin to saying: I don’t care how well you do it, just get it done.

When learning is distilled down to the mere parroting of facts and concepts, the multisensory experience is lost.

I wondered what small part of me shone brightest to those from my past. And whether those relationships grew because of what I saw in them.

Perhaps most of us are primed to view data-based rather than consensus-based decisions as counter to group harmony.

Television may plant preconceptions about how to recognize honesty from deceit, while taking time away from genuine social interaction.

Did my aptitude for controlled dissociation developed purely from practice, or was it somehow jumpstarted by the past

I sensed the omnipresent cultural expectation to achieve. Can’t it just be enough to find joy in the everyday business of living?

For many, conflict is so scary that the future threat of regret is preferable to the short-term torment of conflict.

Control isn’t necessarily good or bad, but it can tell us something about ourselves. It can be hurtful, helpful, healing, or humbling.

Having responsibilities implies we have something to give. Having something to give implies an abundance. It’s the opposite of wanting.

There is more to homelessness than lack of shelter. Afterall, we don’t say ‘houseless.’

We don’t have the monopoly on intelligence, even if we think we’re the best at it. It’s easy to forget that when surrounded by civilization.