Tune Out and Tune In

I have two pears sitting on my counter. Seeing fruit outside the fridge, in a bowl, a plant near a window, a photo from a trip hung near the piano – these are all signs that things are going to be ok. They are connections to life that exists beyond these four walls – whether

My 2017 Cleanse

It’s not anal. It’s mental. (I think I may have just identified what I want written on my tombstone.) Anyhoo – Something happened almost immediately after the US election on November 8th last year – I stopped turning to cnn.com. Or watching the news, referring to newspapers or even worse, political Facebook posts. I didn’t

To Endings: Farewell to 2016

There seems to be a lot of group think that 2016 was generally a crappy year, and from a personal perspective, I can understand it. As I have joked on Twitter – I officially got divorced, had to sell my house and lost a job – and all of that disappointment still didn’t compare to