Lonely? You bet! So is most everyone else, even people with partners. And no need to be jealous of the relationship they have, since they likely don’t have the fulfilling romance you imagine they do. Sad? Of course! Lonely is depressing! Anxious these days? Or any days navigating our modern world? Of course you are. … Continue reading Therapy for Change or Ego
Australia killed social media today for under 18. YEA AUZZIES! My almost 24 yr old daughter came downstairs Saturday morning giggling with glee. She told my husband and I she was ‘so excited!’ Something ‘great’ had happened. She was in a car accident 1.5 yrs ago that is resulting in a lawsuit, and I thought … Continue reading Parenting Social Media
My husband was upset with our 7-yr-old Shepherd-mix pound-hound this morning. “Ellie won’t come with me to Frisbee anymore.” He generally takes her to the park every weekday afternoon to play. I take Ellie Maze on the weekends. I stand at the top of the hill and hurl the disk as far as I can … Continue reading The Fundamentals of Effective Communication
For anyone experiencing grief from loss... The fetus inside me, my potential daughter, was diagnosed XXX from a tissue sample taken during an amniocentesis my 14th week of pregnancy. We’d named her Sierra, since she made it past the first trimester, after losing two of the triplets in utero the first month. I’d had three … Continue reading Reaching Acceptance
Atheists are worse than terrorists in USA… I was finishing the morning dishes when I saw the strobe of police lights out my kitchen window as several cop cars pulled up to a house across the street from ours. I picked up my 19-month-old son out of the highchair, held him against my ballooning belly, and hauled … Continue reading Atheist in Christian America
Your phone is a tool you're using, or a tool that's using you... I’m watching The Politician on Netflix while working out. The scene is on a teen and mom in their kitchen, arguing about which state senator to vote for in the upcoming New York election. Teen is a first-time voter, just 18. She’s … Continue reading R.I.P. Information Hwy
My 10 yr old daughter asked me what Ego meant, one of her vocabulary words for the week. I laughed. “Good question. What do you think it means?” “I wouldn’t ask if I knew, Mom.” “Well, use it in a sentence, in context. You’ve heard the word enough to have an inkling what it means. … Continue reading We Are What We DO
According to Zuckerberg: “Young people are just smarter.” True or false? I responded to an ad for a Traffic Manager position at an ad agency in San Francisco 25 years ago. Downtown, in one of those glass monoliths. Eighteenth floor. Made me nauseous being up there. I couldn't stop thinking about an earthquake waiting for … Continue reading The Problem with 20-something Brains
We play GOD when we give birth. With great power comes great responsibility… There is a child in my daughter’s preschool that everyone dislikes. She hits, pushes, slaps, and throws a fit every time she doesn’t get her way. All the teachers at the preschool dread having this wild child in their class. Her mom … Continue reading The Problem with Today’s Parents
Startup MVPs are a FAILED biz model, but I did one anyway... “Looks like cancer to me,” the PA said while I wiped off the ultrasound goop. She’d just taken samples of the 15mm ‘lesion’ in my neck with a fine needle. I stared at her trying to process what she’d just said while she … Continue reading My First, Last, and Only MVP
