Category: Metaphors
Holiday Gift Guides – 10 Items I Bring On Every Trip!
This is the first of three, or more, holiday gift guides I will be sharing with you all here on Dirt & Tears! Note that everything on the list below is something I have paid for myself or received... Read More
Swollen Eyelids
This morning I woke up with my one swollen upper eyelid. The left side, like it matters. Per usual, when sleeping somewhere beautiful, I peered out the window to a pre-sunrise pink glow and wrestled t... Read More
Travel Transitions
I keep having this thought in the back of my mind like I am heading home tomorrow. Maybe because that was the original plan. The easy plan. The one my overwhelmed mind originally chose. Both my romant... Read More
Speaking the Language
We’re riding the train from Milano a Firenze. It’s clean, with comfortable grey seats. Little pods of four facing one another, and these cute little tables in between that fold out to full... Read More
HAH! Bingo – Holidays Are Hard
Sometimes the holiday season is so challenging and stressful and sad that it is laughable how much the real experience is the opposite of what it’s intended to be. So, in an effort to help mysel... Read More
Shut Up Already About the MHFA Course!
You might be wondering why the heck I jabber on about this course Mental Health First Aid USA, all day every day. Or why on earth I thought it would be feasible to let go of full-time employment and d... Read More
No More Talking About Sex
If you have not yet read my piece in Issue 7 of SISU Magazine “Lawful Bodies” titled Sex Is An Adventure, do so now. I’ll wait. Although the article itself is interesting, I feel tha... Read More
Mountain Symphony
Until we meet again, palm to palm, for whoops and hollers, high fives and hugs, do as the mountain does, and feel the mountain symphony beat gently in your heart.... Read More