“Forget FOMO. Embrace JOMO…” the headline of The Washington Post article started out in the News app on my iPhone. I knew what FOMO was. (Fear of Missing Out.) If there were a FOMO Anonymous meeting, Wayne would drag me to it. (Faithfully. Every week.) But what the heck wasContinue Reading
On a recent flight home from San Francisco, I looked out the window at one point and was once again struck by a feeling I often have when flying: a total sense of humbleness. Soaring above the ground and seeing how small cities look, how small the ribbon of roadsContinue Reading
“Well, a woman’s not gonna be a good president. She’s got no balls to scratch.” That was a North Carolina Trump supporter’s reasoning for not picking Nikki Haley when NBC News and MSNBC Correspondent Shaquille Brewster pressed him about what he really thought about Haley. But the misogyny (and ignorance)Continue Reading
Is “stoic” the new buzzword, or is it just a coincidence that I keep seeing it everywhere? Or is the Universe trying to tell me something? Like, “Pull up your big girl panties and get on with getting on, Court!” I thought I knew what stoic meant, but to beContinue Reading
I first got the idea to write Future Letters (in place of New Year Resolutions) after reading Sarah Ban Breathnach’s Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort and Joy back in 1999. I’ve been writing Future Letters ever since. Although, I have to admit, at first I thought it sounded aContinue Reading