Things happen that aren’t fair. All the time. And sometimes life hands us what feels like a particularly unfair hand to play. Maybe you get passed over for a promotion. Even though you’ve been there longer and do a much better job than the person who got it. Maybe you weren’t even considered. Because of your gender. Or… [Continue Reading]
Minding my life
Finding the Sweet Spot (between binging and deprivation)
If you follow Heidi’s Table on Facebook, then you will recognize some of what follows from a recent post there. Topics of food and eating are —for better or for worse— very near and dear to me. Today I’d love to bring some fresh air to a topic which can sometimes be fraught. I’ve come a long… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guests (break up edition): Regret, Doubt, Rumination… (feat. Rumi & Leonard Cohen)
This being human is a guesthouse… – Rumi It was probably the last day of sun before a string of rain days descended upon us, but on this day Spring was decked out in her softest and sunniest white, pink and purple ruffles and her youthful joy just made me all the sadder. Oh, my… [Continue Reading]
Entertaining today’s guest: “Too Much”
Stressful thought: “They won’t like me if I’m real.”
Is that true? Hmmmm. I believe it sometimes. Can you absolutely know that it’s true that “they won’t like you if you are real”? No. I can’t know. How do you react when you believe that “they won’t like me if I’m real”? I pretend: my voice is different, maybe a bit higher, a bit… [Continue Reading]
Inside, outside: Same, same (Or: My Irans and Syrias)
Recently I was listening to a panel discussion on NPR on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and war(s) in the Middle East. One of the panelists commented that the U.S. does not speak to a number of countries and that in the last couple of years, when Iran tried to communicate with the U.S. via the Swiss… [Continue Reading]