My writing is often about memory, dreams, perceptions of time, synchronicity, love & longing, healing, and music.
I edit two publications here on Medium: deja vu (literary essays and poems on time, memory, music, love, and longing) and woo woo (exploratory writing about dream life, waking life, psychic phenomena, and…
The magic — and the danger — of looking for patterns in the world
Last night, while searching “the significance of 38,” I landed on a Yahoo! Answers page. It was not the first time I’ve sought comfort in strangers’ answers to other strangers’ questions.
In fact, the most useful information I’ve obtained since the internet was usefully searchable has been from message boards…
But Might Work This Time
I love the term “creator economy.”
I don’t know who first coined this phrase, but kudos to them. As a marketing professional, I’m pretty critical when it comes to slogans and jargon. I’ve been naming products and businesses for 20+ years. It’s tough to come up with a new, original…
A modern fable
It’s been a few months now I’ve been seeing Time. We started off as friends; although there was a bit of an imbalance between us. Time seemed to know so much more than I did. He was aware, for instance, of secret wisdom, passed down to him along a river…
And It Took Time
It’s been about a decade that I’ve been actively researching and writing on the topic of love. Over the last few months, however, I finally discovered the solution to the elusive challenge of loving myself.
Time.
If you are someone who has done any personal development work, has ever had…
What Are We Willing to Call “Healing?”
Who are the healing professionals in your life? Over the course of my own life, I would include the following without hesitation:
- Pediatrician
- Allergist
- Gastroenterologist
- Nurse practitioner
- Nurse midwife
- OB/GYN
- Dermatologist
- Psychiatrist
- Radiologist
- Chiropractor
- Reiki-master
- Acupuncturist
- Naturopathic…
It’s precisely this view we may miss the most someday
Last year, I moved into my mother’s house with my three teenage children. She had been considering downsizing and moving into a retirement community, and we had been homebound in our smallish apartment since the start of the pandemic. …
Like everything else, it’s unhealthy when it becomes an obsession
If you have ever quit an addictive habit, substance, or relationship, you know what happens at some point: the fog starts to clear. Suddenly, and in only small ways at first, you see or experience the world differently.
In the case of removing chemical substances like cigarettes or sugar, there…
