It seems like the older I get the faster time moves. I cannot believe it is already the middle of May. Weren’t we just celebrating the New Year? Even more remarkable for me, this year my law school class...
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving, a holiday I have always been ambivalent toward. On the one hand, I love the idea (and I stress the word idea) that we as a nation come together in the spirit of gratefulness, to spend...
Last year, roughly around this time, I had a semi-meltdown. Well, maybe meltdown is too strong of a word. There was no cursing, no crying, no screaming or raised voice, just a dramatic display of immense irritation. Admittedly, from...
Recently I had an epiphany. It is this: life becomes much easier when you realize that no one really knows what they are doing. This is our first time at life, and we are all just figuring it out...
Like many of you, I was mortified to learn of the acts of violence that erupted last Friday night in Paris, leaving more than 150 people dead, and countless others wounded physically and emotionally. My feelings of horror were...
“My life is one distraction after the. . .oh look, flowers!” For a while this was the description I had under the “about me” section on my Facebook page. Now it’s only on my Instagram page. While it is...
I am sure that we have all been guilty of this before, and we have all been on the receiving end of it as well: advice that hurts. It may hurt for different reasons. Perhaps it hurts because it...
I have recently been grappling with this truth: Humanity is complex. We are an intricate, convoluted, paradoxical, yet beautiful creation capable of both great kindness and great evil. This is true on a macro-level as well as on an...
It’s November, and in a few days I will be making my transition from merely being “30” to being IN my 30s. Apparently there is a BIG difference between the two. There are a lot of realities of life...
One night during Bible Study at my church, a fellow parishioner made a comment about the difficulty we have with accepting grace. Her point, in essence, was that we often feel we must earn what we receive and thus...