Getting Sober
I went to another memorial today at The Lighthouse Mission. It used to be once a quarter, then every other month, and now it’s every month, many of the deaths [...]
We Don’t Heal Alone
“Resilience is best understood as a characteristic of communities rather than individuals. Resilience isn’t personal grit; it’s the capacity of a neighborhood or community to respond, mitigate, and adapt to [...]
Come Create Art and Community with Me
The climate crisis has weighed heavy on me the last few years. I spent years avoiding the headlines, not wanting to face it. Then having teenagers changed all that—it feels [...]
Commitments instead of Statements
Have you noticed how many people are putting out statements lately? This happened with Ukraine, Black Lives Matter, the Dobbs decision, and countless other milestones and conflicts in the last [...]
Holding on and Letting Go
A few years ago, as I was encountering some bumps in raising my teenage son, I sighed to my therapist, “I guess it’s just time for me to let go.” [...]
Getting Inspired is our Job
Friends, I am a broken record. I’m here to say—again!—that we can’t go very long without inspiration. And if you can’t see it lying all around you, decide to go [...]
Prescription for Sorrow
I was talking with one of my goddaughters recently (how blessed I am to say that!), and she asked, “How should we deal with the inevitable pain of life?” Of [...]
Here to Hang Out
I’m coming back from over a month off, and I was blessed to run into a few readers around the Puget Sound (Julie on Lummi Island, hello!) who asked how [...]
Find the Snake
A couple years ago, I listened to the Enneagram teacher Suzanne Stabile and the author Brian McClaren talk about facilitating a retreat together. Suzanne was sharing that she found herself [...]
What phase is this?
I listened to this funny takedown of the popular book Atomic Habits recently, and it was such a RELIEF to get out of the self-improvement trap for a few minutes, [...]