Photo by Author What Forest and Poseidon Taught Me Stop Running and Don’t Sacrifice Your Life  (If you are new here, you may start reading and think "holy hell this is depressing." But fear not. My stories end with a positive, healing note. This one is no different.) I know y’all remember the segment of Forest Gump  where he started running, for no particular reason, and he just kept going. Until he was done. After 3 years, 2 months, 14 days, and 16 hours, his running came to

A Tale of three million women Oregon Department of Veterans Affairs I am a U.S. Army veteran. Every year I feel angst and conflict about Veterans Day. Pride, seated beside angst. This year I thought it would be different because I’m in Italy, far from the U.S. But I was wrong. I cannot run from the conflicting feelings inside of me. Miles cannot separate me from the reality of being a woman who is a veteran of the U.S. military. Years of therapy have not made the annual angst

We\don’t leave because we don’t love you, we leave because we finally love ourselves and can no longer bear the reality of being hurt by...

A new newsletter? Yes please. I hope this finds each of you enjoying wherever you are and whatever you doing as the Summer comes to an...