I’m Ready to Go Gray
I seriously considered going gray three years ago during the lockdown. After much soul-searching and extensive consultation with family and friends, I realized it wasn’t time. It felt like an identity...Read More →
Category: Personal growth
Lessons from 2022: From the Pathetic to the Great
I had a hard time deciding how to structure this list. My first thought was to start with the great and end with the pathetic, to then conclude with how I would do better or different in 2023. But the...Read More →
15 Reasons I’m Grateful to be Venezuelan
Last year I started my very own Thanksgiving tradition, though I didn’t know it yet. I posted a list of random things I was thankful for -exactly 52, for no other reason than the fact that I was 52....Read More →
Aging: Age is Not Just a Number
Being older is the same as being younger in many respects. That’s what I think anyway. I’ll be 53 this month and my needs and wants are not much different than they were at 35. I continue to want love,...Read More →
Flight Switch: A Scary Story With An Unexpected Ending
Once in a while things work out for you and you know a higher power had a hand in it. This happens to me whenever I fly. Sometimes it’s super obvious, like the time I switched to an earlier flight from...Read More →
26 Lessons About Love, Sex, Parenting and Money From 30 Years of Marriage
Thirty years of marriage. How is it even possible? “It really has felt like two minutes — underwater,” an acquaintance joked the other day about his similarly long marriage. Seeing as I’m very slow when...Read More →
Jealousy: I Was Decidedly NOT Jealous
It all started 21 years ago when we immigrated to the United States and joined our local YMCA, where I enrolled in yoga classes with an instructor I shall name Kate. I would come home raving about them...Read More →
Time for a Marriage Break?
Do you ever wish you could mute your spouse when he’s (my spouse is a “he”) telling the same “joke” he has told 137 times and which you’ve made abundantly clear is not funny AT ALL? Have you fantasized...Read More →
The Gift of Uncertainty
Uncertainty is not all bad. Far from it: it can be a gift that forces you to actively write the story of your life. Imagine this hypothetical life: You’re born into a well-to-do family. Your father’s ...Read More →
Seven Big Ideas on the Astounding Benefits of Tiny Habits
I was reading the book Atomic Habits by James Clear, and suddenly it hit me: the person I know with the best habits is autistic and intellectually disabled. He reads at a first-grade level and his myriad...Read More →