Tag: goals


  • Do It Afraid

    Fear sustains me. I am an anxious mess of convoluted worries and scattered priorities, sprinkled on a heaping mound of tangled nerves, and plated beside a trauma en cocotte. Fear has been the guiding motivator in my life for several years now, and my nervous system is requesting a sabbatical. Fortunately, I’ve been lucky enough…

  • It’s New Year’s Day, 2026. I am sitting on a cold, mist-soaked bench on a gray and rainy day on the silent beach of Goldwater Lake. A duck is sitting motionless in the center of the water. The mountain valley usually visible from here is draped in a sleepy white blanket of fog. I can…

  • Adulting nowadays feels a lot like the week between Christmas and New Year’s Eve, especially when you’ve entered into your empty-nester phase. As children, everything in the world was new, magical, fascinating, and beautiful. We were encouraged to play, create, and grow our imagination. When we set higher goals for ourselves many of us were…