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Today I'm working on breathing. I caught a cold, and it's my first one since COVID started. My immune system is in shock. It's not handling the simple virus very well. That means t…

This week has been hard, but I think I'm finding my groove. Which is a little worrying because I just interviewed for a new job that would 100% destroy the groove I have going on. …

I love a good morning to myself. Today I was up before the sun and got to watch it rise from my porch. I'm practicing holding still and enjoying the present moment. It was a beauti…

I'm currently working on an article about over-planning and future anxiety, and I'm not making much headway. This is ironic because I'm a constant over-planner. I like to have my w…

I had the incredible pleasure of spending a day with my boss on Thursday. This was out of the ordinary because I am remotely employed. He lives in Dallas, and I live in Durham. Tha…

There's nothing I love more than writing to destroy. It's a beautiful, protective act I do for no one but me. In today's class on writing for release and recovery, I had an amazing…

Hello Hiveians! About 2 or 3 days ago, I had a dream that I could fly. This dream was kinda like a part two for being able to fly, because I once had another dream before this one …

Last week I made the nine hour drive from North Carolina to Indiana to visit my kids. I've been making this trip every six weeks for the last year. This trip was my first staying i…

One of the ways I like to keep in touch with loved ones is to send them videos of my space. Earlier today, I sent my mom an introduction to my plants. I recorded a brief tour of wh…

Ever make a cup of tea just to sit with it? That's my mood today. I'm drinking the tea, sure, but slowly. It doesn't resemble hot anymore, and that's totally okay because there is …

Back when I was religious, I read a book on religious etiquette that mostly told me to be barefoot in the kitchen, but there was one section that continues to speak to me. It talke…

One of my recent Zoom classes was on the topic of writing grievances. There is a lot to be said for the practice of writing shit how it is without sugarcoating. Toxic positivity tr…

One of the most frequent struggles in my life is my relationship with my body. I can remember exactly two times in my life when I didn't feel overweight and unattractive. In reflec…

I've been burning the candle at both ends of late. I talked about this a little bit: I have three jobs. One of them is hourly as a project manager. The position is remote and guara…

I woke up tired. Hurricane Ian did a number on my area of Durham last night. While we didn't lose power, many others did. There is plenty of debris in the roadways. I've been a bit…

One of the topics I've been working on in therapy is silence. Being silenced. Feeling silenced. Choosing silence. The safety of silence. But moslty, the violence of silence. I'm n…

I've been writing and teaching writing on the side for the last 20 years. Both passions have been relegated to hobbies or side gigs for most of that time due to the need to survive…

One day, I'm going to buy a boat. I want to live on my boat in a cove on an island. That's it. The dream. I just want the sun, the water, sleeping in a rocking bed that can also ta…

We all get stuck in our productivity. I like to think of creative blocks as boxes we are stuck inside. As in, we are unable to think outside the box. A huge part of my teaching is …

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