Dear Everyone: "Stochastic Surrender." A friend and colleague reached out last night and asked me for the “two words of my past week.” Stochastic Surrender w...

The grey mists of uncertainty always breed intense discomfort. Unfortunately, in our haste to move out of uncomfortable places we can all-too-easily position...

Dear Everyone: The human soul doesn’t want to be advised or fixed or saved. It simply wants to be witnessed – to be seen, heard and companioned exactly as it...

Dear Everyone: I had an entire, rather pissed-off paragraph right here before I remembered to take a deep breath (yep. Breathing: Still important), remembere...

Dear Everyone: I've received a whole truckload of "whaddabout" questions over the last couple of days. There's a lot of new information out there, and I'm me...

Dear Everyone: I don’t have the ‘Rona. Thank you all who reached out over the last 24 hours to check in. Y’all are generous and kind, and I appreciate your...

Dear Everyone: Well, we’re back for a second round of Q&A. Hopefully this time we can move beyond a single issue (last time we never got past “to mask or not...

Dear Everyone: Check your people today. This was a long, tough week for many of us. We knew it would be going in - we knew the number of sick and dead would ...

Dear Everyone: I've been asked several times to do some type of Q&A, and I've hesitated in part because I am loathe to get into FB debates about "the exact r...

Dear everyone: Oct. 20, 2014, at age 13, my eldest son was diagnosed with high risk, acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Leukemia is a medical emergency, the kind ...

Dear Everyone: First off, it's Friday. Yes, I double-checked. Secondly, just a reminder that now is the perfect time to change into day-pajamas. Or, if you...

Dear Everyone: This is a tough-love post. I'm writing this one specifically for those of you who need to share it with people in your circles -- to those who...

Dear Everyone: I truly loved my maternal grandfather growing up. He was a kind, capable, quiet giant of a man who was perpetually and silently busy: repairi...

Dear Everyone: As I was cleaning the kitchen tonight, I glanced over and there - at the end of our big farm table where he sat and studied through hundreds o...

Dear Everyone: My husband walked through the office behind me last night muttering, “I choose denial. It’s easier…” Amen, my love. It’s a pretty human thi...

Dear Everyone: #SocialDistancing to radically #FlattenTheCurve is for the birds. We're social animals, and even those among us who claim to be introverts w...

Dear Everyone: I love seeing how seriously everyone is beginning to take the #Suppression strategy in this pandemic through their mindful efforts at #Radical...

2/2 Dear Everyone: It was a long week all day today. Is it Friday, yet? Does Friday even mean anything, anymore? For the record, my kids are feral and I'm no...

Dear Everyone: One of my favorite things to say to my kids - and yours, too, if they’ve spent any time hanging with us - is: “Talk to me. I can fix anything ...

Dear Everyone: “My friends, do not lose heart: We were made for these times. Ours is not the task of fixing the entire world all at once, but of stretching o...