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The Man With the Plums

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Life Is Beautiful

Last summer, we sat in the orthodontist’s office hoping to hear the magical words, “Good news! No one needs braces!” (I will pause while you cackle at my naivete and foolish hope.) Instead, we learned that we needed MULTIPLE sets of braces. The total cost was shocking. Like, I felt my soul leave my body […]

10 Things My Clients Taught Me

10 Things My Clients Taught Me

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Bliss

For more than a decade, I’ve gotten to talk to the most interesting people in the world about the most interesting parts of their lives. I’m talking about my private clients, who are ambitious, successful, tender, justice-oriented, mystical, grounded, creative, intellectual, sensitive, fierce, world-changing kindred spirits. While I guard their privacy fiercely and rarely tell […]

An Epic Battle: the poet and the little red hen

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Time Management

Imagine, if you will, a great cosmic battle. Two mighty forces, swords drawn, facing each other down in an ampitheater made of stars. (Technically, this showdown is in my head, inside my imagination, occurring in my consciousness, but since technically we’re all made of stardust, it still counts.) The two foes face off. Their faces are grim. […]

Looking at Flowers

I was SO annoyed at myself

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*Queen Sweep

One night last week, I sat up in bed, turned on the light, and wrote something startling in my journal: I was just about to drift off to sleep and I realized– I’m happy. That’s what this feeling is. Contentment. Everything is okay, the kids are okay, nothing is on fire– all is well. Wow. […]

Washer is broken

So my washer is broken

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Time Management

Friends, I’m writing you from the swirl of a tiny domestic crisis. If you want to hear something important and profound, I’m afraid this missive is not that. It really is the story of a tempest in a precious privileged little teacup… or perhaps a cute laundry basket. However, if life feels exhausting and you […]

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