"I just can't write right now," one of my students said this week. "I sat at my computer for three hours this morning and couldn't write...

"You're like a cat," a friend once told me, "you never stop moving." This is true in both a literal and figurative sense. I'm always...

This week, I was telling my therapist that I felt stressed and overwhelmed. I've had so much on my plate that I constantly feel behind,...

As a freelance writer, I've taken some pretty random gigs. I once wrote character and plot analysis for Harry Potter and the Sorceror's...

I never stop moving. I'm usually juggling several things at once, moving back and forth between them. My to-do list is always a mile...

This week, I spent the day in the Vermont statehouse in Montpelier for Mental Health Advocacy Day. I get NAMI's (National Alliance on...

I'm not very good at saying "no." Need a favor? Sure! Invite me to do something? I'll make it work. Want me to work for free or next to...

Last weekend, I went snowboarding for the first time all season. I live about 20 minutes from Sugarbush and would normally be up there...

What a year - wildfires! Hurricanes! Scandals! Impeachment! But 2019 has been a pretty good year for me, even a pretty great year (as...

In the opening scene of Episode 2 of the new Amazon series, "Modern Love," Lexi (played by Anne Hathaway) dances through the supermarket...

"I'm not alone, but I'm still lonely." -"Live in the Moment," Portugal the Man Last night I went to my friend Corrine's Open Studio,...

The Golden Rule is "Treat others as you want to be treated," but I propose a new rule - "Treat yourself as you would treat others." I...

This week, a friend posted about someone criticizing her for being on anti-depressants (I recently wrote a post about this happening to...

Two of my oldest friends, Ali and Chelsea, and I don't see each other as much as we'd like to, despite living within a half hour of each...

Seriously, why do we undervalue art? I'm talking all kinds of art from writing to music. We want it free or, at least, super cheap. We...

I first saw Australian comedian Hannah Gadsby's Netflix special "Nanette" while sitting on the floor of a friend's cabin in West Virginia...

I'm not much for sticking to New Year's resolutions (let's be real; is anyone?), but at the beginning of this year I set the ambiguous...

When I was thirteen and anorexic, I was sent to the teen psychiatric ward in the Keene State Hospital. It was my first experience with...

I've suffered from major depressive disorder since I was a kid; it's part of having Bipolar Disorder. Though I'm now on the right...

Most writers are familiar with the phrase, "Kill Your Darlings" (a poll of my husband found that 100% of non-writers are not). It means...