Abandon hope of a better past

  Over the last week in California, something shifted for me. It wasn’t a singular action that spurred this shift in consciousness, nor was it the trip itself. But, removing…

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Are You Stuck in the Middle?

  It’s no accident that Dante began The Inferno, his allegorical journey through Hell, “Midway upon the journey of life / I found myself within a forest dark”.   In…

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The Sugar Cookie Effect

  Life isn’t fair.   Most of us struggle with this basic tenet of life. We don’t always understand why some people get the good end of the stick of…

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This One’s For You

  Every year I have periods where I feel like I’m stuck – where I feel like my life should be different than it is. In the absence of what…

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Why You Should Quit

During my freshman orientation for college, I decided to switch majors from Secondary Education History to Secondary Education Biology. Maybe it was knowing there was already an overabundance of history…

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