Giving Voice

I woke up this morning to see the news of my old neighborhood in Minneapolis burning in protest at the senseless and violent death of George Floyd at the han...

Over the past few weeks of this pandemic, I’ve watched people protest in support of reopening society. There have been photos of people carrying signs statin...

I fell in love with traveling when I left home for the first time on my eighth grade class trip to Washington DC. I was immediately intoxicated by the new si...

I had a dream the other night in which all of the yards in my neighborhood were peppered with political campaign signs, red for the Republican candidate and ...

It’s a curious experience to socially distance yourself from others. While I’m often separated from many people in my life, I’m also never alone. To be quara...

I thought I was doing this quarantine thing fairly well. I was maintaining many of my regular practices like going for walks and showing up for work, but the...

I feel fortunate to be an introvert during this time of quarantine. For the first time in my life, it feels like being an introvert makes me well suited for ...

This pandemic is proving to be a great education on so many fronts. I feel like the Universe is giving me daily lessons and insights into the human condition...

A few weeks ago my daughter’s middle school was holding a career day, a day in which each child was to find a person to shadow in a career of their choosing....

As a child I was taught to obey authority, to look to leaders for answers and assume that they had my best interests at heart. It took me years to realize th...

There is one discomfort I sit with during quarantine that I keep coming back to over and over again: the great privilege I have in this life, many of which a...

If you would have asked me five years ago what I feared most in the world, I would have said a free day to myself without anything to do. If I had a day off ...

I used to believe that I had to let everything into my body including violent images, unkind words, negativity and hate. I believed that what didn’t kill me ...

We’re not even two full weeks into our self isolation during the coronavirus and already it feels like years have passed since life felt ‘normal.’ It seems a...

It’s hard to fathom the rate at which our lives have changed over the past week due to the coronavirus. Last week I was debating whether or not it was safe f...

Uncertainty is rarely a friend to those who suffer from anxiety. Living with circumstances that are well beyond our control can be maddening and fear inducin...

I love a good memoir. I enjoy the insights into other people’s lives, how they interpret their experiences and how they’ve grown throughout their time on thi...

As long as I can remember, I’ve had a nagging sense that I should be doing more with my life. I often feel like I’m not living my intended purpose. Wrapped i...

I’ve always been a writer, but it’s only in the past two years that I’ve felt comfortable calling myself one. When I was a girl, I’d sit my introverted self ...

I’ve long felt an affinity with trees. When I was young, I liked to climb them, hide in their branches and pretend it was my home. It wasn’t until I turned t...