The Urge to Fix Myself
“I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult.”― E.B. White It happens all of the time. I go around in circles, it seems, between working on myself and trying to fix everything I think is broken…
A Truth-Telling Assignment
In the film Runaway Bride, a newspaper columnist, played by Richard Gere, points out to Julia Robert’s character, aka the Runaway Bride, that she doesn’t even know what kind of eggs she likes. He had questioned all of her former beaus, and each one noted that she liked her eggs cooked the same way he…
2 Things to Do to Reclaim Your Life
There I was on Valentine’s Day, the Day of Love, and I was miserable. What was I going to do? What I always do. Read. I am a reader. I read a lot, especially self-help books. That day I remembered a book by Jungian analyst, James Hollis, who I had heard speak once in Chapel…
Becoming a Truth Teller
The fact that it was Valentine’s Day and I was married, that we were not even sleeping in the same bedroom, barely talking to each other, and I was not feeling anything close to a loving feeling on the day of love, was not lost on me. Coming to terms with that truth was the…
Whose Life Are You Living?
That was the question running through my mind as my daughter and I waited for the sheriff to arrive at the accident scene. We were alright, no injuries, but I had just turned into the right lane directly in the path of a large pickup truck. My little Honda Fit bounced back into the left…