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Tag: true for me

Don't get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen
Quotes

What you see is what you can free

Don’t get trapped in a prison of your own making. -W Leitzen

July 7, 2024July 7, 2024 · 1 min read

Culture

Abstinence Doesn’t Work

No one’s thrilled by the choices this upcoming election. But I don’t need thrills from my governance – that’s for reality TV. I’m writing to people not planning…

July 6, 2024April 23, 2025 · 5 min read

Mommess

responsiveness: in websites and in life

I find myself needing to write every day. The swirl of ideas and realizations are vast and without some expressive outlet. So, I’m giving myself 15 minutes today…

June 30, 2024June 30, 2024 · 2 min read

For My Kids

When libraries love you back

I have always loved libraries. Actually, take that back. I used to be afraid of libraries, but now I love them. Growing up on a small island, I…

June 29, 2024September 7, 2025 · 2 min read

Creativity

Donut Holes & Superpowers:

probing the philosophy of nothingness in daily life How consciousness works, how it lives, dies, and transforms has been a preoccupation of mine since I was a girl…

June 28, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

website explainer: “the magic bookshelf”

As a 27-year web design veteran, and de facto tech support for many of my clients, I’m often asked to explain what’s going on with some aspect of…

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 · 2 min read

Photo by Chris Sabor
Coaching

Idealism, burnout, and collaborative missions

I’ve needed to abruptly quit a few things in my life. And each time, my departures have left people confused. In general, I’m an upbeat worker, definitely a…

June 20, 2024July 11, 2024 · 5 min read

Mommess

the web

As a web-worker myself, I find myself doing this every day; working on the Internet. That’s my ‘web’ and the moniker of my company. Sometimes connectivity feels like…

June 18, 2024June 21, 2024 · 1 min read

Mommess

The Upside Down of Spiritual Awakening

I used to think of spiritual awakening as a good thing: a sign that someone had accumulated enough spiritual merit to deserve to see behind the veil, and…

June 16, 2024June 16, 2024 · 8 min read

Coaching

Speculation vs Decision: guarantee certainty and mitigate risk by front-loading choices

My eleven year old wakes up early and likes to go on woods-walks with me most days before school. Today, we figured out when choosing between two potential…

June 10, 2024June 10, 2024 · 3 min read

Coaching

Taking a Hot Second to do The Work

I’ve come to know Byron Katie’s The Work as a strategic identity cleanse, a chance to remove harmful beliefs with surgical precision. If you don’t have time or…

June 9, 2024April 7, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

Ten minutes in an eternal day

I wrote this post in April 2024, but didn’t publish it. It is a picture of the difficult ‘upside down’ frame of mind I lived in for months.…

June 7, 2024June 7, 2024 · 5 min read

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