Life is a series of starts and stops… beginnings and endings… a constant state of motion in which we are always moving somewhere and not quite in control of where that might be.  This is generally the place where time and space seem to stand still, even as life is clearly evolving full-speed ahead.

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This week I enrolled in a couple of fall writing courses through the UC Davis Extension program that are being taught by two amazing instructors.  My hope is that I will be able to fine-tune the writing skills that I’ve mainly used only as a hobby.

I am curiously [...]

Some weeks for me are peppered with events and tasks that seem to have no meaning and no real effect on my life, while others are loaded with messages that are far too obvious to ignore.

This week was chock-full of the latter.

I made a conscious decision early on this [...]

Fear has been my topic of choice lately; presumably because I am navigating my own intensely fear-driven phase right now.

And the truth is that though I appear to be a risk-loving, leap-of-faith-taking maven, I’m really just a big chicken cloaked in a cape of blind ambition.

No… really.

When I was young [...]