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Letting Go is Hard to Do.

I used to be in the newspaper business. Not really, but that’s fun to say. Early in the pandemic, I was aching for connection. Not because I was…

May 3, 2022 •

The Memory of Something Lost

Ambivalent motherhood and the joy of connection

Mar 28, 2022 •

Have you ever had a HAM?

If a panic attack had an opposite, this is what it would feel like.

Feb 1, 2022 •

boundaries... why do we suck at them?

and why is it so scary to acknowledge how we really feel, even to ourselves?

Jan 24, 2022 •

Oh, I'm actually not in control here.

What happens when part of the breakdown in the social order happens in your own home, with your children? A story of school refusal in the pandemic age.

Jan 17, 2022 •

I hate it here. I love it here.

Neurotransmitters, twitter, and coming to terms with this – right here, right now – being the life we have to live.

Jan 10, 2022 •

This is Lost and Found, Mostly, a newsletter about trying to connect across the chasms of love, art, yearning, grief, and letting go.

Jan 10, 2022 •

Lost and Found, Mostly

Lost and Found, Mostly

Trying to connect across the chasms of love, art, yearning, grief, and letting go.

Lost and Found, Mostly

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