I Can’t Sit Still, But When I Write,—

Jan 13, 2016 | Life, Writing Practice

I can’t sit still, but when I write, When I write, I lose track of time, and space. The numbers on the clock rotate and I fall out of the month, outside of the place, out the person. Sometimes I lose an entire day, lost in ten thousand words of a story, one word...

How We See Ourselves: On Identity, Labels, and Privilege

Jan 7, 2016 | Big Life Questions, Life

Do you know the story about when a man is asked to look in a mirror? He’s asked what he sees. He says “myself” (usually he says his name, “I see John,” etc). A woman looks in the mirror and says, “I see a woman.” A black...

3 Writing Tools To Draft, Edit, and Publish Your Work

Jan 4, 2016 | Life, Writing Practice

It Doesn’t Matter How You Do It I should title this post “how to write every day” or “what tools I use to write every day” because the questions I get over and over again from so many different people are variations of the same questions:...

Starting A New Life

Jan 1, 2016 | Life

It’s been hard to get a new post up every week, for two big reasons: first, working at a startup is a big mountain of a challenge, and second — more excitedly! — I’m now just about five months pregnant, so all my free time (and body energy) is devoted to...

Learning How to Meditate

Sep 12, 2015 | Life

I finally achieved the badge for meditating three days in a row on the app I’m using to meditate. To be clear, I didn’t know that this even existed. It took me 8 months to figure THAT out — or, depending on how you count, it took me 31 years to figure out how to sit...

15 Quotes on Meditation and Mindfulness From Jon Kabat-Zinn

Aug 29, 2015 | Life, Mindfulness

I have a small (but growing) stack of wisdom books on my desk that speak to the human experience. One of them is Jon Kabat-Zinn’s book “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life.” I’ve highlighted and...