Some days are completely white, white as a blank piece of paper, white as a brand new canvas. You can draw just about anything on it for that day. You can decide to be overjoyed or miserable. You can decide to be religious or atheist. You can be an optimist or a pessimist for that whole […]

I just finished reading Chelsea Handler’s new book, Life Will Be the Death of Me… and You Too! Reading her books has always been one of my guilty pleasures, like when you take a walk on a hot summer day, pass by an ice cream store, and say to yourself, “Well, what the heck! I am going […]

I had the opportunity to interview Elizabeth Flock, the author of The Heart is a Shifting Sea. Here are some highlights. Do you write for others or for yourself only?I write for both myself and others. I think any good writer writes about the things that personally obsess them — the things they can’t turn away from or want to […]

Letting Go of Our Story I am standing in the middle of my story, a handmade quilt, small pieces sewn together. I am thinking of how attached I am to my story It’s a fact that we all are caged by our stories, and we all feed on our past. We’re playing the incidents of our lives over and over again. We […]

I just finished reading this book: Almost Everything: Notes on Hope by Anne Lamott. Now, I am thinking to myself, Yes, I definitely like Anne Lamott’s writings. Her essays are poetic, full of wisdom and truth, where she uses a lot of metaphors to connect with her readers. In this book and in her writings, it […]