An incubus by any other name…

When I was 21, I experienced a horrifying encounter with an incubus — though “incubus” wasn’t yet a word that had been added to my personal dictionary. All I knew was that an evil-feeling male spirit-thing came to me in the night, pinned me down, nearly suffocated me, and tried to rape me. It literally took my voice…

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Honored to be a guest on Another Mother Runner Radio

It was such an honor to join the Mother Runners, Dimity McDowell Davis and Sarah Bowen Shea, this week as their guest on AMR Radio. In this week’s podcast, I read from my essay in their latest book: Tales From Another Mother Runner, talk about my recent career revolution, the joys of Snickers and Tab, and long adventure runs…

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The Way of the Soul, Version Pre-K.

The other day, in the early morning, my five year old snuggled up on my lap with her blanky and her stuffed fox and her sleepytime hair. She was crying. She had had a bad dream. “Mommy, I never want you to die. I never want to lose you.” I set down my coffee and…

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Bring in the third person.

Have you ever been stuck? Stuck in a job? Stuck in a relationship? Stuck in confusion over something that happened? Unable to get over it or snap out of it (whatever it is)? Probably. Because we’re human. And we worry about what people think of us. We doubt ourselves. We let social expectations rule us. And then,…

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