Reflections

The shock of the Ukraine war in 2022 hit me hard. I remember waking up one February morning to the grim realization that the world had fundamentally shifted while I slept. Vladimir Putin sent his troops across the border into another country’s sovereign territory and…

I can still hear my riding instructor’s voice as I started to trot for the first time. “Head up,” she called out. “Look where you want to go.” She told me later she had to give that same instruction to all of her beginning riders….

The Home Depot cart return was a mess. Shopping carts strewn everywhere, jutting out at odd angles, threatening to escape back into the parking lot. Evidence of modern life’s haste and indifference. I pushed my cart in and spent an extra second clicking it into…

“I could never draw something like that.” My niece was seven. When I first started taking my artwork seriously, my sister asked me to make an animal drawing for her birthday. She had seen a zebra drawing of mine and wanted something similar for herself….

Years ago I tried keeping a gratitude journal. Oprah told me to, and I hoped it would help me through a particularly rough year. I’m a good list maker so I started writing out these long lists of things I thought I should feel grateful…