This Life

Do guilt and obligation keep you saying yes when inside you’re screaming noooo? Me too. Till I realized the price.

Losing loved ones is one of the hardest things we humans face. But what if we change our relationship to death?

Holidays are a gift, permission to stop and remember: This is your life.

Being away from my devices revealed the fiction of the urgency we create––and how it robs us.

My waiter wants to know how my food is tasting. And how my day is going. Our fake-nice economy is killing us.

No thoughts of, what’s on the agenda today? Not, I better get Sam up for school. No. Instead the urgency of Jane’s love triangle presses on.

Island life. Sun that bathes. Family lunch on the backyard picnic bench. Corn and tomatoes sun-warm from the farm. Miles of navy blue ocean.

I know what you’re thinking: Why would anyone want to go to Kansas for vacation? If you’re serious about food, then reconsider.

I’m lying on a table like a slab of meat, and Amy is telling me to knit my abs. Um, what? I don’t knit. I’m just trying to understand.

Jacquie is the third young woman, mother and wife that our community has lost in the past few years, each of them decades before their time.