Want an honest window to the challenges of life?
This is the place where I write about the hard stuff of life—the difficult questions, the tough choices, the unwelcome losses.
I don’t have all the answers, but I’ve got a flashlight and I’m using this place to leave a brave and honest map.
Want an honest window to the challenges of life?
This is the place where I write about the muckiness of life—the difficult questions, the tough choices, the unwelcome losses.
I don’t pretend to have all the answers but I’ve got a flashlight, a curious mind, and I’m using this place to leave a brave and honest map.
Latest Posts
Nothing For Us Without Us
I started this series to counterweight how my brain tends to work, ruminating over failures and forgetting successes. Because last week’s post reminded me of …
Everybody Has a Worry Bottle
The first year I worked at the University of Minnesota, I didn’t know what program I wanted to enroll in, but I did want to …
In the Shadow of His Mother
Let’s go back to the clinic, back to the Accutane study, back to that sixteen-year-old standing in his mother’s shadow. Let’s call him Keith. (I …
Testimonials
Hard Times & Hope Podcast
Robyn: It wasn’t her fault but it shaped her self-perception anyway
Hard Times & Hope podcast, episode 19. When Robyn Rose was ten or twelve years old, through no fault of her own, something happened that …
Linda: Cumulative Losses
Hard Times & Hope podcast, episode 18. Linda had recently suffered a major business loss followed by the death of her mother. Then her big …
Linda: Deconstructing and reconstructing her life, without alcohol
Hard Times & Hope podcast, episode 17. Three deaths and the ravaging cancer of a friend were wake-up calls. What they said to Linda Mclachlan …
Do we have things in common?
To find out, how would you answer these questions?
(My answers are “Yes!”)
- Are you curious?
- Have people told you that you’re strong?
- Have you loved… and have you lost?
- Do you believe in getting better?
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