To Do or Not to Do To put it mildly, there is a bit of an obsession with “doing” in the current market culture. Productivity levels, infinite growth as a norm, success as climbing the social ladder. We are encouraged to use our time to produce...
How to Take the Pressure off Parents
Despite this oft repeated adage “it takes a village to raise a child”our society seems to have headed in the opposite direction...
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5 Reasons Why Bringing Your Kids to Concerts is a Great Idea!
Once upon a time most community events were places where all generations mingled. Elders, youth, children, adults…everybody...
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Ok, But…Where are you Really From?
I come from a mixed heritage background. West-Indo-European would be one simplified way of describing it. On my mother’s side...
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To me, the title of this post encapsulates the crux of most modern-day existential and relationship dilemma’s. How do we go about balancing this, relatively recent, cultural obsession with personal freedom with the unavoidable reality of...
Bell Hooks puts into words a question I ask myself on the regular: “How do we hold people accountable…and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?” In the...
I’m writing about this because one of the biggest, baddest monsters under the bed of most creative writers is the desire to please others. One of the most inspiration-crushing reflexes of the artist is to analyze and judge everything that comes...
We all have those moments where we find ourselves staring at a blank page thinking….nothing. In fact, I had one of those moments as I tried to begin writing this blog post. Unfortunately many of us experience this “blank” feeling as a big...