“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt What is the thing …
Recently I’ve been feeling rather scattered, not as whole as I do at other times, parts of me—parts of my self—blown here and there without a lot of coherence. So I breathed a small sigh of relief when I read the recent Psychology Today piece “Is Your Brain Like an iPhone?” by Robert Kurzban, author …
The spring semester has begun for my husband and son, I don’t teach until this afternoon, and I am alone in the house for the first time in five weeks. Even as I type these words, I feel a twinge of guilt, hoping that if my family reads this post, they don’t think I didn’t …
Does the thought of speaking about your writing excite you? Or terrify you?
I just took the plunge. At age 46, I’m going… This morning I signed up for two courses, knowing that there may be … And choosing to ignore my own fears of … Trusting instead that the time is now: Oliver Sacks, I hope you are right!