The Moment I Didn’t Want to Have (Temperance) The moment that stopped me wasn’t dramatic. It was my 10‑year‑old asking, “Can you get me a drink?” A simple request. A normal one. The kind a kid her age should feel
PDA isn’t a flaw. It’s a different operating system — one I didn’t choose, but had to learn. When I stopped forcing compatibility and started honoring its logic, the world softened. River stopped fighting me. Forest stopped feeling hostile. Belonging began.
Linkedin From the Porch of the Asylum Between My Ears Signals, Systems, and the Canvas Breach That Wasn’t Just a Breach This week, a comment in a LinkedIn thread nudged something in me (Click on the LinkedIn button above for
Literacy isn’t always limited to reading Every so often, a conundrum wanders across the asylum between my ears and refuses to leave quietly. The latest one arrived through a familiar doorway: someone encountering information that didn’t fit their existing frame
As Ellucian Live Is Closing: The Reckoning and the Work A post crossed my feed this week — Simon Sinek noting that people don’t need my polished certainty; they need what I’m actually learning. That landed with the kind of
Attitude when things are going well and ego wants to take credit. Both handles keep you from grabbing the wrong thing when life swings wide.
Actions, Cruelty, the performative “Family lens” in the corporate systems The rabbit hole I chased: This resonates because it names a pattern we rarely acknowledge. When uncertainty becomes the norm, companies lean harder on “family” language — not because it’s
Rabbit hole post – A recent Stand4Kind post talked about the power of simple mental‑health check‑ins — naming what’s happening inside before it spirals. That’s what this practice has become for us: a way to help our kids map their
Follow the White Rabbit! As I consider the spring cycle — Ostara, Pesach, Passover, Easter, the close of Ramadan, and the long exhale at the end of Lent — I came across this quote and went down a small rabbit‑hole