A fact about me: I am an introvert and accepting this about myself and learning about it is one of the huge ways I am learning to love and welcome myself. Introversion can be confusing though. I told a friend the other day that after our two-hour class meeting at school (which I enjoyed and was fully engaged in and… View Post

When a door closes in our face, when a romantic partner says ‘I can’t do this any more’, when we lose a job, or somebody we love, when we still haven’t found our dream partner, when our life feels like it’s not enough, like we should be somewhere else – something more than it is – we feel disconnected. Because… View Post

I love how Anne Lamott says that life is like driving in fog and that we can only see as far as our headlights will illuminate. I think this is brilliant because, however hard we try, it is just hard to have the bigger perspective. And it’s a reminder that we are not meant to either. And so when we… View Post

A friend of mine was once criticized by another about her style of parenting. She was understandably upset and as we were in a group setting at the time we asked her to elaborate on what had been said. We listened with love and a lot of compassion for how hard it must have been for her to take in… View Post

Texting, emailing, FB messaging, Skype-ing, whatsapping, scheduling social things, work things, play dates, planning food, feeling existential, worrying about the whole world…. And so this simple wisdom is uncommon but it’s where the magic is. YOU make where you are and what you do sacred. And that’s our work. Sending love from my chopping board via Facebook into your phone… View Post