by KimBoo York | Dec 19, 2016 | Life and all That
I am surrounded by boxes of memories, furniture, and china that have never really belonged to me. I am the caretaker for what I salvaged from my inheritance, and it feels a lot like living inside of a storage unit. As I embark on a major re-organization of my studio...
by KimBoo York | Dec 18, 2016 | Life and all That
Sometimes personal reinvention is less about appearances and more about finding out where our True North moved to. I’m an atheist so it might seem surprising that one of my favorite authors is the Catholic monk, Thomas Merton. There are a lot of reasons to love...
by KimBoo York | Dec 17, 2016 | Life and all That
That’s where I am right now. I have been on a long daily streak of writing blog posts on my own blog and cross posting to Medium. That streak came to a crashing halt during finals week at Florida State University when I and my colleagues had to drop everything...
by KimBoo York | Dec 11, 2016 | Life and all That
Between my own sense of panic and the culture I grew up in, I have no clear concept of what “accomplishment” looks like. Meaning: when is enough, enough? When can you reach the point of the day and say, “I have done what I needed to do”?...
by KimBoo York | Dec 8, 2016 | Life and all That
It was 1999 when I decided to trash my credit score. I did not have any particularly nefarious plans, honestly, but I owed a few thousand dollars to a couple of credit card companies and it felt insurmountable, given me and my husband’s low-wage jobs. The...
by KimBoo York | Dec 7, 2016 | Life and all That
[tl;dr – do one activist thing a day, such as make a phone call, and you too can save the world!!!!] There is a lot of frustration right now around the sense of helplessness that liberals and progressives are feeling, stemming out of a general consensus that we,...
