Have you ever made a new year’s resolution that you truly intended to keep, only to chide yourself in the first week of January for failing to keep it? I did it for years and felt like a big, fat loser. But I went on making resolutions every year, even though my inability to keep […]
Have you ever gotten through an entire day without feeling uncomfortable? After suffering a panic attack before teaching a writing class at the library last month, the director from a recovery house called to ask if I would consider teaching that same class to the patients there. (“bird by bird,” word by word) It seemed absurd, […]
