My mother and I are discussing plans for Christmas dinner. I will have a full house, including my parents and a long-time friend staying with us. "Now," says Mom, "I don't want you running yourself ragged, trying to do everything." I literally laughed out loud. What an absolutely ludicrous thing to say. That's simply not who I am. I said as much, and after we hung up, I found myself puzzled. Why would my mother ever imagine me behaving that way? And then I realized... I would behave that...

An excerpt from my meditative writing, March 2025: I am a study of opposites, a container full to overflowing with things that would seem...

A string of the most utterly uninspiring words ever to be connected in the history of spoken language happens to be my longest held,...