Before my parents finally relented and let me have a dog, I had to settle for a pet pine cone who I named “Piney.” “Settled for” is not quite right because I loved Piney dearly. I dressed Piney in skirts of fabric round her middle held up by her little prickly scales and built Piney a home with a bedroom and a tiny bed in a shoebox. Piney was what I called a “baby pine cone,” about the size of a large peanut or a small grape. Piney was tiny. One day, when giving Piney a bath

What is ten years? It's a moment, it's a lifetime, it is yesterday, it is a life ago. It's the difference between 3 and 13; between still feeling young at 38 to suddenly being faced with being almost 50 just ten years later. We go from being a toddler to being a teen, from being a teen, to being a grown up, such radical life changes in those leaps, but from 23-33, we're still young adults, and time just evaporates. We still have transitions, from barely out of school, to moth

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I began practicing yoga when my son started Kindergarten and he’s heading to high school this fall. Which means I’ve been doing yoga and...

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I thought I knew how to practice gratitude, how to count my blessings. I give thanks every day for the little things and the big things,...

I sit by the river and cry. The sun comes and goes, making me blink my tears down in black streaks. Why even try to make up my eyes, when...

For the better part of the last year I’ve felt mostly frozen when it comes to a lot in life. Too scared to do so many things, for valid...