The Hawthorne Hedge

I didn’t know how angry I was until I began to grieve. I noticed grief creeping in in late September. I saw things with emotional...

“...the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be” -Charles Bukowski, The Laughing Heart I often find self-reflection...

(To be read to the cadence of The Girl Scout Law) A Vow of Self Love On my honor, I will try: To offer myself compassion, tenderness, and...

I have a tendency to pit my head and my heart against one another. On one hand, I can appreciate the balance between the two, and see...

I spent most of my life believing I was responsible for other people’s feelings. I blamed it on a variety of things: I was an empath, a...