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12/13/2025

I keep wanting to hop on here to post encouragements to care for your self well, and specifically, in this overwhelming, dark, beautiful, hard, confusing, family filled, glittery season but am also trying to be realistic about time and energy.

So, here’s a little proof of life & some things I’m thinking about in the hopes you can be comforted or inspired or at least not feel alone.

💭: How can I communicate radical welcome to every person I encounter while also respecting their boundaries and not offering them more thanI can afford?

💭: Where can I get body work with pressure so hard that it will work out the knots in my back and shoulders?

💭: Who have I forgotten to respond to and how will I appropriately apologize?

💭: How can people claim to follow Jesus and not embrace/ensure the safety of immigrants?

💭: Where can I find chai so spicy that it stings?

💭: How can I encourage the most people possible to be their wildest versions of themselves and to know that it is that version that is beloved?

💭: Who can I ask to endorse my new book?

💭: How can I structure my schedule to ensure more stretching, walking, and sleeping?

So, there you have it. Proof that I’m alive and thinking.

How are you?

You doing OK?

What are you thinking about? Please put a thought or two below. I’d like to bear witness!

11/30/2025

Get outside.

That’s the post.

🍃

11/26/2025

Tomorrow, for me, is known as “National Gaslighting Day” so I’m choosing today to think about some of the things I’m thankful for. This is, in no way, an exhaustive list. Just a few moments from the last few weeks that represent what my heart overflows with gratitude for.

🔥 the opportunity to be a nana! If you need a chosen grandchild or grandparent…look around and find them. They are there, I promise! It might just take a minute.

❤️ these days of remembering things my mom loves (like hot dogs, seasonal clothing, and perms.

🔥 the gorgeous offrenda at . The people who make up this place are beloved to me as are all the departed loved ones I get to be with there.

❤️ chosen family visit from .am.y.mp3 & (newly) when at

🔥 caregivers who genuinely and deeply care! They exist and my heart belongs to them!

❤️ WESLEY and all the children who let me love them.

🔥 a husband who is brilliant and silly and helps me become better at both.

Let’s not condone our posts about gratitude to one day. Let’s keep them coming!

11/23/2025

I’m not here very often these days because there just aren’t enough hours in a day and in the free ones I have, I’m choosing to read, sleep, or do absolutely nothing!

Even still, I want to pop up here to remind you to make time to care for YOU as you enter into what is a caring for others season for many of you.

When you make time for you, where do you go and what do you do? Add it here to inspire us!

11/06/2025

Every time I’ve interacted with Nancy Pelosi I have left feeling seen, heard, and cared for in deeply personal ways. She’s been a role model of sorts in terms of showing me how to be both strong and caring. (Trust me, this is not always the case in meeting with elected.)

Working for the good of the people (all of them…not just the wealthy few), to preserve a democracy, is not easy and I am grateful for those who do so with integrity.

Thank you, Representative Pelosi, for remembering my family, lost to gun violence, and for taking time to really listen and care. You have inspired me to keep pushing…even harder…as I age. Thank you for your example and service!

(As an aside, thanks, also, for twinning with me at the White House! 😉)

10/30/2025

Try one (or more) of these tech moderating practices & notice how calm you feel.

It might be hard at first but, with practice, these small things can improve your mental health and ability to focus.

10/27/2025

It’s family reunion time and my heart could not be more full! (Do you see the resemblance? 😉)

In 2018 my big brother finally found each other and there’s been no looking back ever since.

I’ve been on the phone and in Zoom rooms with his kids (my nephews) and his siblings but never in person. Once, before he was to undergo a big surgery, we all gathered virtually to figure out who would do what in the support department. It was wonderful!

He’s been to Portland to meet his nieces and nephews, “mom,” & auntie and friends but I’ve not yet been in his world.

But that changed yesterday! I’m in Cincinnati and getting to meet everyone in person (& to have his big brother pop his cowboy hat on my head at the last minute in this picture) is everything!!

Getting to be with his beloved fiancé is especially sweet!

I’m so grateful for everything that brought us together ( , hot peppers, & a particularly frustrating reporter) and for this time that I really, really needed.

The adventure continues because the band is back together and is unstoppable.

❤️ ❤️

10/15/2025

I have fought with myself and the world about the word “cute” for the entirety of my life.

As a person who has longed to be experienced as capable, smart, wise, & radically present, being referred to as cute always stings a bit.

I know it’s because I associate the word/state of being as opposed to that which I so hope to be.

Yesterday, a white man, a bit older than me, referred to me as “Pumpkin” at the store.

I was instantly enraged.

When I got home, I realized that the sticker from the pumpkin I was purchasing was stuck on my jacket like a name tag & he was simply playing along with a game I wasn’t yet aware of.

I wanted to laugh & cry at the same time about the energy I’d wasted being mad.

As I reach into this new season of life, I’m trying to come to terms with how little I can control in terms of how people experience me. This is both freeing and tiring.

Can you all help me out?

What does the word “cute” mean to you when you use it about people? What feelings & associations lie under and in it?

Seriously, please weigh in here.

10/09/2025

Small actions can have huge payoffs when it comes to our mental health.

This one is huge. Make it easy to resist mindless scrolling by placing a list of things that are healthier on your screen saver.

Mental health is health. Take yours seriously.

10/02/2025

October is Domestic Violence Awareness month and I’m deeply grateful to and for the opportunity to honor my beloved sister in law and nieces in this powerful piece.

The presence of a firearm in a situation of intimate partner violence makes it 5 times more likely that an abuser will kill their partner.

Extreme Risk Protection Orders provide a powerful and rational way of lessening this risk for women.

I’ll link the entire article in my Linkt.ree as well as some information on Extreme Risk Protection Orders.

If you are a therapist, teacher, religious leader, librarian, or anyone, really, who works with the public, knowing about these life saving laws is important.

09/30/2025

As Su***de Awareness month comes to a close, I share some more important things I’ve learned since Gage died.

If you have more to add, please do so in the comments.

Together, we can work to remove the stigma around depression and su***de.

To all of you impacted, I feel you and I care!

Seek out part 1 of this series in my feed from earlier this month.

***deawarness ***deawarenessprevention ***deawareness

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