One Small Habit
There was this woman I used to know. She had a morning routine. She’d head to the local coffee shop, buy a large vanilla latté and a ginger cookie, drive to a park, sit on a bench and have a few cigarettes. By mid-morning, she’d start to feel sick, dehydrated and jumpy, so she’d have [...]
The Seed of Change
As I ran this morning, I could feel my muscles, my spirit, and my breath moving me strongly down the path. Trees were budding, ducks waded in swampy grass and the earth under my feet was scattered with seeds and pods. I surged across this backdrop of spring like one of those seeds – searching [...]
A Good Mother
My mother lives a few doors down from me in a lovely blue and white duplex. She bought the house with her own money after raising two children, working and saving most of her life. She loves her little house. It’s filled with the things she loves most – pictures of her two daughters and [...]
How To Lighten Up Your Habits
Sometimes I feel the heavy burden of a dirty kitchen floor left unswept, a promise to myself to stop eating sugar broken, a hastily thrown together dinner gone uneaten, or an unfinished novel stuck in first draft purgatory.
Sometimes, I’m so weighed down by layers of “maybe later”s and “I just can’t do it”s that I [...]
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