{69} Personal Resources

by | Aug 19, 2016 | Ponderings

Would you prefer to be on a team of superheroes, or alone? That, above, was one of the questions posed as part of the “getting to know you” exercise at staff retreat this morning. The retreat is an annual affair, but it is totally a working holiday. This was not a spa...

The Next 100 Years

by | Jan 1, 2016 | Life and all That, Ponderings

My plan is to live to at least 140 years old. When I tell people this, they often think of older relatives in nursing homes or suffering from illness and cringe. They think of being old and infirm, of being trapped inside a decrepit body. That’s our past and...

“Free range” is a variable

by | Apr 15, 2015 | Ponderings

Everyone I know has posted or commented about “free range parenting” lately, due to several articles about it and a current case where parents are being charged with child neglect for letting them walk to a local park alone. It is an important topic regarding how, as...

Writing About (my) Rape

by | Mar 25, 2015 | Ponderings

NOTE: I’ll be talking about my own rape, in specific but not intimate detail; warning for if that is a trigger subject for you. An artist friend who was putting together a collaborative art show on rape culture asked me to contribute. I said I would try to write...

All hope abandon…

by | Mar 19, 2015 | Ponderings

I posted a link to an article that really resonated with a lot of people I know. It talks about the confusion of not having a set, clear path in front you, and how we often shape our lives by the decisions we’ve made in the past rather than our expectations for the...

Artist co-housing concept

by | Feb 1, 2015 | Ponderings

I’ve had different conversations with different friends lately about the idea of artist communes, which kind of makes my skin itch because I’m just not that much of a hippy. Yet I’ve been enamored for decades now with the “new” concept of cohousing*, which...