Category: Psychic
Posts on psychic perception — clairvoyance, intuition, precognition, the experiences that don’t have an easy explanation and the discipline of taking them seriously without losing your grounding.
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Choosing between Professional Goals and Personal Goals
The following is an excerpt from my upcoming book of business advice for millennials, How to Be a Badass Cubicle Dweller. And bam! Just like that, I laid to rest the professional goal I’d been running after for over 25 years—Senior Executive Service within the Department of Defense. Literally overnight after meeting with my mentor,…
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What It Is Wednesday: Am I Happy? Content?
I’m still mulling over what I’m taking as a compliment, though I’m not sure if it was meant that way. I seldom am shown how other people view me unless it’s the rumor mill, and that’s never ever flattering and rarely carries more than a kernel of truth. But it was interesting hearing a different…
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What It Is Wednesday: Nervous Wiccans
Question for my pagan/heathen/shaman/hippie/woo-woo friends in particular as well as their friends: Over the last couple of years, I’ve found myself expanding on my spirituality, in some cases doubling back to a different understanding of early beliefs, never changing or recanting or neglecting any of the things I’ve learned through personal unconfirmed gnosis which you…
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What It Is Wednesday: Lack of Touch
When was the last time you touched or were touched? Gonna get close to the bone here, but I know my single female friends will appreciate it. There’s an article making the rounds called “Being Single Is Hard.” It’s about touch and how the lack of touch is the hardest part of being single. It’s…
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What It Is Wednesday: The Force Field Between Us
We’ve built a magnificent force field between us — one text, one message at a time. A meditation on digital intimacy, introversion, and the friendships we maintain without ever really seeing each other.
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Love and Late Blooming Flowers
A lyrical personal essay on late-blooming flowers and what they reveal about love, hope, and the gifts Nature delivers when we least expect them.
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What It Is Wednesday: Dating Games
“Dating sucks!” The guy in front of me stopped and yelled at both everyone and no one in particular as I was starting my sunrise miles. The woman with him–a relative, maybe a sister?–shushed him but agreed. They’d stopped right in front of me, and I couldn’t help but eavesdrop as I passed them. “It’s…
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What It Is Wednesday: Who Ya Gonna Call?
On the gift — and the cost — of being the person everyone calls at midnight. A personal essay on empathy, connection, and the quiet labor of caring without limit.
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What It Is Wednesday: Cutting in Line
“What’s wrong with people,” I wondered as I was trying on shoes in a store over in Destin, “that they get so dug into their positions and can’t seem to see what’s obvious to everyone else?” I was thinking this in terms of politics, both on the national scale and in my own workplace. It…
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What It Is Wednesday: Givers and Takers
It’s my nature to be a Giver. I can’t change that. I’ve tried–short spats of disillusioned refusal to give one more inch, in an effort to draw boundaries and protect myself from giving too much. I’m a recovering co-dependent, and that’s the best I can hope for: to find positive ways to channel that early…
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What It Is Wednesday: The Truth Will Set You Free
FB Memories are often a good memory jogger for me. The photo below was 6 weeks into my first “100happydays” experiment of looking for those joyous little moments in life. Though I’m not almost a year into my second “100happydays” experiment–I didn’t want to quit because of the great value in it for me–I abandoned…
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Dating the Mentally Ill
Mama always told me, when I was a teenager, “They’re best to you while they’re courting you.” It was a warning against all men, but she didn’t mean it as a misandrist attack. She’d had experience with really only one man, and he was the basis for her conclusions. She married a young man who…
