Oh, guys.  It’s been a doozy of a week, not just for me but for my clients and my friends.  People are getting clobbered.  Things are breaking.  Things are stuck, stuck, stuckety stuck.  And everything feels hard and heavy.  (Then there are a few people who are having brilliant new things break free—but they seem to […]

Sometimes I get letters from people in the grip of something that feels impossible.  I can’t write back at length to every single person, but sometimes there’s a cry for help that feels so singular and yet so universal that it could have been any one of us.  So I’m sharing my correspondence with one […]

{pssst–Hey guess what?? I had a piece featured in the premier issue of a lovely new magazine. If you ever feel like the universe is out there just MESSING with you, this one’s for you!! You can go read it here.} And now, today’s story. “I just want to CRY,” I said to my lover. […]

A few weeks ago, I tossed off a little phrase in an email in one of these missives.  I said, “Don’t forget.  You are a fucking cathedral.” It resonated.  For some of you, it resonated down in your bones.  Scores of you wrote me in triumph or glee, crowing, “YES!!!  Yes I goddamn fucking AM!  Thank you […]

We all want tools that make our lives easier, right? Who doesn’t want a magic wand (or app) they can wave over their piles of laundry and bills and leftovers and render the whole she-bang done? And almost everyone I know berates themselves for not having a perfectly easy, organized life that just clips along: […]