I feel afraid that I’ll overwhelm people. Sometimes this means I feel worried that I’ll be too much. Sometimes it means I feel worried I’ll say too much. In this …
The other day I said that sometimes I’ll say to myself: “I don’t know…and I don’t need to know,” and then my body relaxes. While it’s true that I do …
What happened to zoning out? Ya know, just staring off into space, there but not there? Perhaps you call it spacing out, or some other term for that blank stare …
“I’m not a morning person.” At least, that’s what I’ve told myself for years, but I’m starting to questions its validity. Is it the full truth or just a story …
So, apparently the price of crude oil didn’t go to $5 per barrel, what did was the futures price of crude oil for May 2020—and about an hour after I …
Oil futures just went down to $5 per barrel. I believe gas prices in the US are now possibly less than $1 per gallon. Wow, what a change one month …
Last night, I started watching a documentary about Michael Jordan. I grew up idolizing this man, everything from his jumpshot to his tongue sticking out. He seemed to have the …
Is it OK to change the rules in the middle of the game? That’s the question I’ve been asking myself over the last five days as I’ve been on this …
I really need to tell them. I sat down to type this and the washer and dryer were going full speed and were LOUD. Goodness they were loud. When I …
I’m noticing that in the mornings, I’m tending to write about what it’s like to wake up in the mornings—more about what’s going on with me internally than what’s going …
Logic doesn’t seem to be working. I converse with people and see how they’re saying one thing and doing another and I try to show that to them, and ooooo …
Love scares the hell outta me. I’ve seen it hurt me and hurt many others. Maybe it’s not the love that hurt, but how quickly the love went from intense …
Last night, I told myself to start moving slowly. To intentionally slow down when walking, speaking, moving, breathing, looking, and even singing that song in my head. Trying to take …
I never notice how loud a place is until I have to record. In the moments before I just started to write, I heard the floorboards creek overhead, the water …
I helped someone yesterday in muting the notifications on her phone. After she did it, said to me how dumb she felt. I replied that all of us are dumb …
I think I’m yawn deprived. When I look at other mammals, especially dogs and cats, I notice how they seem to yawn when they’re tired. They yawn before they fall …
I spoke with my accountability buddy earlier and it helped me see my life from a different angle. For this book-writing group, we have been assigned an accountability buddy and …
I think I spend a lot of my time trying to understand others. I try to understand what they’re thinking, what they want, who they are. And more often than …
I haven’t slept well in, well, a very long time. And I’m ashamed to admit it. You see, having worked specifically on emotions for the last eight years, I put …
What does it take to convince me that this is real? What does it take to convince you? It has been maybe a month since many of us in the …