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Thoughts From the Edge of a Pandemic
It’s a strange time right now, isn’t it? The entire globe is facing an imminent threat, the first since technology has us so connected and plugged in all the time. It’s a pressure cooker for human behavior, amplifying our usual responses and coping mechanisms. As of this moment, we don’t know what is overreaction andContinue reading “Thoughts From the Edge of a Pandemic”
I Want to Know How It Ends
My first marriage was in December 1999, the apex of the collective anxiety around Y2K. At the time, my fiance and I operated from a place of optimism, rationality and faith. Despite the warnings and fears that we were constantly being bombarded with, we decided to move forward with the assumption that everything would workContinue reading “I Want to Know How It Ends”
When Your Head Knows… But Your Heart Doesn’t
Are you staying with the status quo because it is right… or because it is comfortable? Change is hard and so we often try to talk ourselves out of it, even when we know it’s the right thing to do.