Stories for and about those who recharge in solitude and feel life deeply.
Imagine you are a kid planning to attend a new summer camp. You are a little nervous about the situation because: 1. You don't know anyone there. 2. It's a long way from home. 3. You have never been there 4.There will be group activities and 5. You have a home, friends and family that you love [...]
Sometimes I cannot believe how lucky I am. The other day I was invited to a private tour of the Habsburg exhibit at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts. One of the museum's esteemed curators, Eike Schmidt, PhD, led our small group of seven through the elegant galleries containing exquisite sculptures, paintings,weapons, artifacts, armor, carriages, etc., all [...]
It's 9 o'clock at night and we are perusing the food options in the United terminal at O'Hare airport in Chicago. Packaged shrimp salads with strawberries and jicama; yogurt parfaits with granola, mango and bananas; roasted cinnamon and sugar peanuts… All look like perfectly good dinner substitutes to me. My eyes take in the selection and my brain [...]
I spent last week vacationing and staying with people I had never met before the trip. We went out to seafood restaurants and gorged on oysters, shrimp, grouper and key lime pie. We lounged on the beach and inadvertently swam with sharks and sting rays. We sat around the kitchen table and shot the shit. It was [...]
Image credit to Jenn of Broken Open The relationship is new — less than one month in. The abnormal mammogram results arrive just as we are getting started. I hesitate to tell him because I don't want to introduce 'drama' at this early stage. I end up sharing because, well, it is impossible to [...]
We push ourselves out into the world to prove we are not weak, lazy, flawed, friendless, too introverted or too sensitive. We make ourselves stay in a heightened state of arousal because we don't want to give up. We want to keep up with everyone else. Resting or taking it easy feels like giving up. It [...]
