Raison d’Être
There’s a French expression—raison d’être—that a lot of people in the English-speaking world have adopted. Literally, it means “one’s reason for being,” but English speakers tend to…
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I’m So Over the Overton Window
I’ve had to look up the definition of this word, the Overton window, so many times. It never quite sticks, even though the idea itself has always…
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The Age of Unreason
When I was in my twenties, quite a while ago now, I became obsessed with learning a martial art called Ving Tsun, or Wing Chun. And being…
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Sometimes, I’m Almost as Good as I Think I Am
I’ve been accused, more times than I can count, of being arrogant, condescending, self-righteous. There are probably a few other adjectives in that same vein that would…
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Press Pause on the Anxiety for a Moment
Someone told me yesterday, “I feel like a tiger is chasing me and I’m just sitting on the couch.” I related to that. Deeply. About six months…
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How to Change Direction When Life Goes Sideways
I’m currently watching the Harry Potter movies for the first time. I just finished the second one, and at the end, Professor Dumbledore tells Harry: It’s not…
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If We All Wore Our Sins on Our Shirts
About six months ago I rewatched The Scarlet Letter. The Demi Moore one. And even as I was sitting there, halfway paying attention and halfway judging the costumes,…
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Why So Many of Us Feel Like We’re Performing Instead of Living
Some days I catch myself moving through the hours like I’m in somebody else’s body. Sort of like I’m borrowing a life because I misplaced my own;…
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What Life? I Ain’t Got No Life.
I was rewatching The Revenant today, mostly because sometimes you just need a little TOM HARDY. But there was a line I had forgotten about. One of…
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The Woman at the Well (Spoiler Alert; It’s You)
I just realized that I’m the Samaritan woman at the well. Or basically in a similar situation. If we use her as an archetype, her story becomes…