Join me for A Date with a Death Doula
- People who will die
- People who will care for a dying person
- People navigating grief and death in a death-phobic culture
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Written in 2013. What would you add to this list today? Facebook is a powerful manifestation of narcissism. I want to disagree. I want to see it as a way to keep in contact with others, to spread comedy and joy, to empower and encourage. I also see it as a tool for activism and…
Hey, remember that REALLY bad date you went on? Your stories, like many others, may be stranger than fiction, which is exactly why I called up a few ladies and commiserated over our bad dates on my podcast, Nervous by Nature. Sometimes, a bad date means suffering through mortifying moments, but living to tell the…
I always thought that “joy” was such a trivial word. Like many, I thought it was an over-simplified synonym for happiness. I often heard it spouted by over-zealous Christians who, to me, were the same people who stuck their heads in the sand at the first sign of any kind of unrest. Joy was an…
We all know a superiority complex when we see one. Marked by an exaggerated sense of importance, this complex is actually a defense mechanism that compensates for feelings of unworthiness. It says, “Look at how fantastic I am! Don’t you love me?” It’s textbook, really. Who hasn’t met a giant a-hole exhibiting this “big dog”…
The Great Depression lasted 10 years. A decade. Babies were born and spent their formative years in that struggle. That determined how the Greatest Generation lived the rest of their lives, raised their children, invested, voted, impacted society, and lived their true purposes…or not. We’ve been living in the COVID-19 pandemic for two years…
If I’ve learned one thing, it’s to be here now. If I took my cue about turning 30 from TV, I’d be having a crisis about what the hell I’m doing with my life. I’d find myself to be officially “old” and wonder what happened to all of those dreams I had as a kid….