At Sarah’s favorite grocery store for her weekly shopping trip on Sunday, I’d decided to mostly focus on her and her list. Her favorite store. Her diet. Her need for both help, and sovereignty. Yet the...

Dear Senator Sinema, I’ve admired you since we worked together at the Center for Progressive Leadership in Milwaukee in 2011-13. I was a faculty coach, and you were one of our most brilliant and inspiring...

Wow. I’m surprised to find it’s been over seven months since I wrote a blog post!! Apologies—to my readers, to myself, and maybe, to my blog. Last week I attended a 6-day in-person writing retreat with...

Last night my contemplative writing teacher Miriam Hall gave us a prompt about what might be going smoothly in our lives, in the midst of roughness. Here’s what I wrote, edited just slightly for clarity: Is...