It becomes hard to trust your own thinking when nothing seems to be working. The space between how I thought it would go and how it is going seems to widen in front of my eyes. Maybe most difficult of all is how often the undesirable outcomes around us spill over into our relationships, both at home and at work. An errant comment too easily turns into an argument. I become blind to my impact on people around me, caught up in the unresolved problems surrounding me. During times like these, we often underestimate the power of the choices we make and how it can create a path back towards what’s working or down the slippery slope of self-destruction, which my husband affectionately calls “flirting with the gutter.”

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” –Simone Weil

With the holiday season upon us, it is a great time to re-think your gift-giving rituals. Instead of trying to find the perfect present, find simple ways to bring your full presence to those you love- truly, the most generous thing we can offer anyone is our undivided attention. Being thoughtful and deliberate about how you...

“No day shall erase you from the memory of time.” Virgil

I recently walked the perimeter of the memorial installations of the World Trade Center. My hand tracing the names of the thousands of people who lost their lives in the horror and destruction that has come to define this day. Inside the memorial are hundreds of thousands of gallons of running water sliding down the large perimeter of the...

“It’s not like consent is this big mystery. It’s not about controlling young people… it begins with a sense of responsibility about our own sexual needs that does not hurt or compromise anyone else’s.” – Wendy Strgar

I remember last summer sitting in a room full of 20-something kids, many of whom I had known since middle school. We were working on a project that has since evolved into our Make It...