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Sometimes you have to lie about it “Sometimes you have to lie about it.” This is an odd phrase to consider in our present culture, our milieu, where we are beset on a daily basis with DT lying about one…

Well, if feels kind of weird to admit it out loud but sometimes you have to lie about it. Everybody knows that lying is bad, after all, and admitting that you are doing it is even worse. Shawna always had…

Yan Kai was a young lady of few words. But every word of hers is funny or cynical or a sign of deep concentration and creativity. Yan was my undergrad classmate. We were usually the only girls in a difficult…

I feel I've spent my whole life trying to prove that I am a person of strength. First a boy of strength Then a teenagerman of strength. Then, and still a man of strength. I spent much time trying to…

I am always in a hurry. Never enough time. One thing after the other. I hear the alarm and arise. Make coffee climb. back in bed. The black cat sits in my lap that is our time. But I multi-task…

TMJ is still bothering me, a sensation of tinglyness that started in my jaw, continued up the back of my ear, and all the way up my scalp to the tip of the head, and then curved down along my…

I used to feel like life was a race. A race to the end, whatever that was. I began to choose people I was competing with for a permanent job or promotions. Why did i select those particular people? I…

She had impostor syndrome bad. She feared her clients, not that they would come and hurt her -- most of them were in prison anyway -- but that they would somehow know that she didn't really know criminal law, even…

I have not heard one single word from my supposed Creative Caffeine partner this week...not a single piece of writing, and not a single response to the writing i sent to her....and this makes me wonder why sh bothered to…

Racing no one but myself It is a constant frame of mind, racing through the day, through the To Do list, especially those who don't get back to me: prospective funders, documentary subjects, people related to my mother's care. Yesterday,…