My memories of the first years of Earth Day celebrations mostly center on a beloved school art teacher, who would take us into the woods next to the school to collect natural objects. We’d bring rocks, branches, and fungi back … Continue reading →
Welcome to Part VI, the final in this blog series based on Brené Brown’s studies of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. You may also want to listen to an interview Ms. Brown gave with Krista Tippet. To recap, “vulnerability is … Continue reading →
Welcome to Part V in a six-part series about vulnerability, based on Brené Brown’s studies of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. I encourage you to also listen to an interview Ms. Brown gave with Krista Tippet. Stepping off the bus … Continue reading →
Welcome to Part IV in a series about vulnerability, based on Brené Brown’s studies of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. I encourage you to also listen to an interview Ms. Brown gave with Krista Tippet. I was having lunch with … Continue reading →
If you haven’t yet read Part II of this blog post series, check it out. We’re talking about Brené Brown’s studies of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. This post is in part inspired by a Krista Tippet interview of Ms. … Continue reading →
If you’re just tuning in, read Part I of my blog post series about Brené Brown’s studies of vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. Today’s post riffs, in part, on a Krista Tippet [on being] interview of Ms. Brown. Feeling vulnerable … Continue reading →
Brené Brown is a research professor at the University of Houston, where she has spent the past decade studying vulnerability, courage, worthiness, and shame. You may have heard of her, she’s been promoted by Oprah and did a Ted Talk … Continue reading →
Angalifu, aged 44, died Sunday, December 14, 2014, in San Diego. Until the international news wire picked up the story, most of the world has never heard of him. Even I only knew his name after reading his obit. Sadly, … Continue reading →
Turning fifty didn’t freak me out as much as turning thirty had. Thirty prompted feelings of needing to be a real adult, not the international wandering soul of my twenties. Real job, real money, maybe even a real husband and … Continue reading →
Arriving in Missoula is a homecoming for me. I left Missoula in 1998, chucking in my ancestral and spiritual home for another ancestral-spiritual home of Scotland, thus, migrating in reverse the journey my ancestors had taken from the Old World … Continue reading →
