Snake, Please

I lost my composure during a guided meditation on equanimity. Yeah. Equanimity—that steadiness of mind and composure in response to any situation? Well, I’m not a skilled meditator. But at least no one else on the call could see or hear me! In this guided session we were prompted to bring to mind s…

Thoughts on caregiving, the big brutal bill, and a call to save Medicaid, for all of us. Please see the text edition of this newsletter for the full transcript and links, here: https://itslikethis.substack.com/p/waiting-game This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other su…

Annapolis, Maryland. 1975-ish. Just after a rain. I was maybe four years old, riding my bike around our dirt driveway in the woods. My training wheels got stuck in the mud and I found myself on a stationary bike, my back wheel spinning an inch above the muck without moving me forward. I felt it beg…

I wish this story was about an uneventful afternoon a few years ago when my then-teenaged son and I were home alone while my husband was out of town for the weekend. I wish I could tell you my son was watching one of his Pixar movies in the living room and I came down the carpeted stairs with absol…