Abundance or Scarcity?
Last week, I explored the meaning and experience of anxiety. In doing so, I realized that all my anxiety has a common root in scarcity, which gave me the subject for this week's post. Scarcity and abundance. What could be more perfect for Thanksgiving week? Scarcity,...
Anxious Outcomes
I recently had a conversation in which I learned about the degree to which my anxiety affected at least one of my now adult children. Parenting is an ironic business. Having been a chronically anxious child myself, always feeling unsafe and afraid, I strove mightily...
In Plain Sight
It's hunting season in Maine. Several days ago a woman was accidentally shot and killed on her own property at 10:30 in the morning by a hunter. We frequently hear shots in the neighborhood, and although we don't allow hunting on our land, there's nothing to prevent a...