After living for three years in Bedford, England, when I was 15 years old my family made the life altering decision to move to Corona, California. At the time, this was more than a move from one country to another. It felt like a leap between separate solar systems. Arriving in sunny Southern California, for months on end I didn’t…
Read MoreWhen my kids were little, I’d get home from a long day at work and collapse on our living room couch. The minute my joints and tendons thanked me for this act, my youngest would come running to me from another room, sobbing. “My brother came into the room and took my sheepy toy and threw it and then yelled…
Read More“To be playful is not to be trivial or frivolous, or to act as if nothing of consequence will happen. On the contrary, when we are playful with one another, we relate as free persons, and the relationship is open to surprise; everything that happens is of consequence, for seriousness is a dread of the unpredictable outcomes of open possibility….
Read MoreSeveral years ago, a man in Austin, Texas brought a lawsuit against his date for $17.31. The cause of this grievance? During a showing of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, he claimed his date was texting on her phone and that this clearly violated the theater’s rules. Perceived as an unforgiveable crime, the texting contributed to a less than…
Read MoreHave you ever felt so upset about a conflict that your brain started telling the same story about it over and over? With each re-telling in your mind, more details emerged clarifying how “right” you were and how “wrong” they were. Before you even got to tell others about it, your mind had already done a lot of work to…
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