Category Archives: fear
on the wisdom of heeding (good) advice
Several weeks ago, I had an experience that felt like a white-light moment — you know, those instances when things fit together just right and every decision you’ve ever made feels as though it were precisely the right one to get you into exactly the place you were meant to be. I called a friend […]
there’s that pesky 2% again
Lots of things have been canceled on me this weekend — none of it is personal but cumulatively it’s a bummer. I’m back in that 2% hole, worried I won’t raise enough money to get enough copies of my book published, stressed with work that I’ve been lagging on because I’m not in the right […]
being honest about the tough times, too
Most of the time — I’d say about 98% of my waking hours — I feel at least what many people would call “pretty good” about my life. In fact, I think I handle stress and adversity fairly well these days, given my strained circumstances. In describing this to my psychiatrist yesterday, I said that […]