I will not be a person who instructs another to smile. What even is that? To me, that feels unwholesome— unsafe. I prefer an authentically…
In a speech I heard today, it was said that “Patriotism is not loyalty to the president but to the country (in our case, the…
In true Magda- fashion, tired and hungry for my bed, silence, solitude, stillness, and my weighted blanket, I departed our celebration before midnight–AND nobody got…
Sometimes, what it looks like is all anyone (not looking too closely) will see. Oh look, the wise benevolent docotor is helping so many girls.…
So Friday evening, after a long week with the boys, so much engagement and so many words, I was spent— and pleased to be draped…
Tell the Truth!! As a young and developing human, I had consistently recieved messaging that my body was wrong, too brown, too tall, too skinny,…
In my family of origin and later my marriage, if there was a sure way to create tension, I did so effortlessly, though not deliberately,…
“Mom, have you ever felt suicidal?”, asked my son. I admitted: “Yeh, but mostly only on special occasions when I was tethered to people who…
I may spend all of my days seeking a way to forgive and emotionally release one who knowingly chooses to do harmful things to those…
Unrelated things which I have thought or heard over the past five weeks: Sometimes we need to explain or discuss things in order to gain…