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"My job won’t get easier. The emails won’t slow down. My 3-bedroom house won’t magically shrink back into my 2024 studio...
10/02/2026

"My job won’t get easier. The emails won’t slow down. My 3-bedroom house won’t magically shrink back into my 2024 studio apartment to make itself easier to clean. My kid won’t stop asking brilliant but baffling questions from sunup to sundown, forcing deep dives into whether or not rhinoceroses have noses or if birds have teeth. My hormones aren’t going to return to 2019 factory settings. The demons of 10 years of “what-ifs” and “could-have-beens” aren’t going anywhere."

I woke up at 1 AM again. My overstimulation at 8 PM made a bedtime root b**r float seem entirely logical at the time. So, when my very wired almost-6-year-old walked into my room at 9 PM needing he…

Remnants Sometimes it’s hard to start over because there are remnants that persist from previous seasons. If you look cl...
09/29/2026

Remnants
Sometimes it’s hard to start over because there are remnants that persist from previous seasons.

If you look closely you can see about seven carcasses of some of the ladybugs we used to tackle an aphid problem. My guess is they were already dead when put in the soil.

Yeah, sometimes what we plant or place or position… is already defective… Dead before we can experience that thing’s potential.

Like it is with gardening, old stuff can help feed what’s to come. That’s true for negatively and positively.

If the old is dis-eased, the new is at a disadvantage. But… as in the case of healthy gardens, old matter nourishes the ground organically. Old roots and old leaves, when mixed with fresh amendments, provide a great place to start again.

What’s that saying?: We aren’t starting from scratch, we’re starting from experience!

09/24/2026

What would you tell your younger self?

Communal Narcissist? Dry begging?
09/13/2026

Communal Narcissist? Dry begging?

New to town and lonely, I thought I’d found the perfect friend. Years later, I realized her generosity was hiding something much darker.

What starting over can look like..."There are no prerequisites for the love, protection, and provision I’ve experienced ...
09/10/2026

What starting over can look like...
"There are no prerequisites for the love, protection, and provision I’ve experienced my whole life. My landlord approved a lease on a three-bedroom house more than three times the size of the apartment I lost after my layoff, when on paper, there was no reason he should have. My first major copywriting job came with a resume that had little more than this blog to recommend me. Somehow, it led to multiple trips to the East Coast and words I’d written appearing in stores across the country. Experience has taught me that the next role, the next door, will open when, on paper, it doesn’t make sense either."

Please don’t let it take over twenty addresses and decades of discontentment, running, starting over, and trying again in a new city, a new state, before you understand this: the process is t…

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06/04/2026

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