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Six Impossible Things
My best friend says that time is like the Cheshire Cat and in a lot of ways I agree. Time can be both vexing and comforting. It’s familiar, and strange. It’s there, then gone, coming only to leave. And...
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Digging Up The Past
When we go digging, we have to expect that things will come up. That’s the point of digging, isn’t it? This month I’ve been doing a lot of digging. An emotional excavation of sorts. I’ve been analyzing...
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Being Open To Love
This is the first time in my life that I’ve been healthy enough, together enough, to offer my whole—unbroken, unfragmented—heart to someone. This is the first time I’ve gone into a relationship without...
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Understanding and Beating Depression
This is a love letter. I wrote this last year, but I mean it even more now. When a person is born with a physical disability—a shortened leg, or only one lung—the world would never expect that person...
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Needing Alone Time
Sometimes, we need time to be alone. Sometimes we just need space to regroup. Sometimes we need emotional privacy. But sometimes, that’s a cop-out. I tend to hide. When my life gets overwhelming and I...
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What Do You Need
What do you need? I’m realizing that the less I need, the happier I am. The less food, the less possessions, the less attention. The body needs very little to be healthy. The excess is the burden. But...
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Courageously Pursuing Happiness
This moment is preparing you for the grandest love of your life. Every moment of our lives is historical. This is the stuff of legends. A hundred thousand, thousand, moments strung together like...
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The Unforgivable
There will be mistakes that you won’t be able to recover from. There will be hugely regrettable instances that people won’t forgive you for. As sorry as you are, as much as you’ve changed because of...
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Bad Things Happen To Good People
There are two things I’ve been thinking about lately. One, is the saying that “when it rains, it pours”. And the second is that in the Jewish tradition, rain is understood as a blessing for the...
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Healing & Being Your Own Hero
Have you found your hero yet? Over the weekend, I had a beautifully heart-opening conversation with my best girlfriend. As we talked about the new year, and the things we’re finally ready to let go of...
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