Quote of the week:“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.” –Frederick Buechner What I’m reading:Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Motherhood by Sheila Heti What I’m listening to:When the Stars Go Dark by Paula McLain“We Can Do Hard Things podcast,” episode 3. I wasn’t even going to listen to this because — Read More

Quote of the week:“The older I get, the more myself I become.” —Dr. Gail Parker What I’m reading:My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer by Lena Derhally — just finished this. Fascinating, chilling What I’m listening to:Recipe for a Perfect Wife by Karma Brown What I’m watching:Nothing exciting, though — Read More

Quote of the week:“In the words of the sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa, ‘You take it all in. You let the pain of the world touch your heart and you turn it into compassion.’” –Pema Chodron What I’m reading:My Daddy is a Hero: How Chris Watts Went from Family Man to Family Killer by Lena Derhally (getting — Read More

Quote of the week:“For a seed to achieve its greatest expression, it must come completely undone. The shell cracks, its insides come out and everything changes. To someone who doesn’t understand growth, it would look like complete destruction.” –Cynthia Occelli What I’m reading:What Comes After by Joanne Tompkins–just finishedWhereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri–just started What I’m listening to:The — Read More

Quote of the week:“Sometimes I think,I need a spare heart to feelall the things I feel.”― Sanober Khan, A Thousand Flamingos What I’m reading:When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema ChodronWhat Comes After by Joanne Tompkins What I’m listening to:The Good Sister by Sally Hepworth What I’m watching:I haven’t been watching much lately, — Read More

Quote of the week:“We’re young, until we’re not. We’re healthy, until we’re not. We’re with those we love, until we’re not. Life’s beauty is inseparable from its fragility. ” —Susan David What I’m reading:The Loneliest Polar Bear: A True Story of Survival and Peril on the Edge of a Warming World by Kale Williams What I’m — Read More

Quote of the week:“There’s a point…when you have to choose whether to be like everybody else the rest of your life, or to make a virtue of your peculiarities.” –Ursula K. Le Guin What I’m reading:Emotional Agility: Get Unstuck, Embrace Change, and Thrive in Work and Life by Susan David What I’m listening to:The Push by Ashley Audrain“Reframing Sensitivity” (podcast)“Being a Highly — Read More

Quote of the week:“Virginia Woolf said that writing a novel is like walking through a dark room, holding a lantern which lights up what is already in the room anyway.” ― Margaret Atwood What I’m reading:Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle by Emily Nagoski and Amelia Nagoski What I’m listening to:Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir — Read More

Quote of the week:“Possibly, then, writing has to do with darkness, and a desire or perhaps a compulsion to enter it, and, with luck, to illuminate it, and to bring something back out to the light.” ― Margaret Atwood, Negotiating with the Dead What I’m reading:What’s Mine and Yours by Naima Coster –really liking it What I’m listening to:A — Read More