A step-by-step guide to manifesting: choosing what to attract, writing it by hand, feeling and acting on inner guidance, plus warnings about manifesting from fear versus love and the difference between influence and control.
A teaching essay proposing that the eleven stages of human development are not a linear staircase but a cycle we traverse repeatedly, with affirmations and daily reminders for spending more time in the later, more peaceful stages.
An overview essay aligning the developmental research of Kegan, Fowler and others into a single eleven-stage cycle spanning social, religious and spiritual growth, described as a circle we travel repeatedly rather than a staircase we climb.
A spiritual essay exploring the idea that everyone you meet embodies some aspect of yourself, arguing that recognizing those reflections makes unkindness impossible while revealing which parts of yourself still need forgiveness.
A personal account of an experiment to learn nine languages simultaneously using a 3×3 spatial matrix of hand-made flash cards, chosen for global reach and variety, aiming to uncover what is common across cultures and languages.
A personal essay on overcoming internal resistance to creative work — retiring a controlling master task list in favor of delegate/do-now/schedule, protecting sacred creative time, and confronting the negative self-talk that surfaces as one nears their true purpose.
A personal practice piece sharing the author’s current daily-reading list of self-authored principles, used every year or two to retrain her beliefs and behaviors toward joy, flow, and living by intentional values rather than external agendas.
A blunt, humorous essay arguing that the ideal of the good parent is undefined and unattainable, proposing instead a personal, controllable definition of parenting success and full relinquishment of responsibility once a child reaches adulthood.
A raw existential essay, prompted by a birthday, on the temporary and evolving nature of self and world, the absence of inherent purpose, and the conclusion that life may be best treated as a game or vacation worth lightening up about.
A provocative essay arguing that no one truly cares about your self-discovery — and that this is freeing, because the journey’s real destination is realizing there is no fixed self, only the shared oneness beneath every temporary layer.
An essay on the social-media obsession with words — arguing that policing others’ conversations, caging oneself in narrow word-based identities, and treating words as important all miss that words are temporary and that action, not language, carries meaning.
A personal essay arguing that initial objectification is a shared biological reality across genders, distinguishing the fleeting first glance from acted-upon disrespect, and reframing the real goal as equality — equal pay, opportunity and unacceptable violation — rather than asking men to stop objectifying entirely.
A reflective personal essay on the search for purpose — wrestling with free will versus destiny and with the distinction between feeling ‘alive’ through music and art and feeling ‘useful’ through business — and concluding that purpose combines both at once.
An essay drawing a parallel between the individual courage to leave a relationship that isn’t working and a society’s courage to demand radical change — arguing that recognizing the need to turn away is a celebrated first step toward something better.
A personal essay on love and the revelation that home is not a place but a person — reflecting on finding one’s one true love, the safe and nonjudgmental feeling of belonging, and how that feeling is how you recognize it.
A reflective essay on fate versus chaos and synchronicity, arguing that life shapes and prepares us for set milestones, illustrated by the author’s long-deferred dream of learning guitar, songwriting and singing.
A short reflective essay on intuition and mindfulness, suggesting that the present moment holds perfect information and that we often know what is coming but must choose acceptance over denial to prepare for or change it.
A reflective essay on truth as painful but healing medicine, recounting a friend’s hard honesty and arguing that facing the truth of a situation, and anchoring in the truth of who we are, brings relief and freedom.
A personal reflection on what we truly miss about a partner when they are away overnight, weaving in the author’s songs Lost At A Distance and Be With Me to explore presence, purpose and the muted feeling of absence.
A reflective essay arguing that true human beauty lies not in outward, airbrushed appearance but in the vulnerabilities, scars, fears, and limitations we hide — and that seeing raw humanity in others makes it safe to accept it in ourselves.
A personal reflection on living with profound regret over choices made under family and cult-like pressure, using the idea of parallel universes to hold both grief for a delayed freedom and gratitude for finally breaking free.
A reflective essay weighing free will against fate, drawing on everyday serendipities to suggest that life balances genuine choice with a deeper compulsion that guides us — protectively and like a parent — toward each new milestone.
A personal reflection on how chaos and stress tend to surge before each new phase of life, encouraging the reader to welcome the turbulence, face what won’t leave them in peace, and trust the calm that follows.