Mental Paper Doors and Inner Space When I was a young newlywed, I moved from Honolulu to Tokyo to be with my husband. He was working for a small tech industry Nanea Hoffman Posted on July 30, 2015
Mental, Physical Working Toward Grace My dad drank Budweiser for breakfast and Chivas for lunch. Then he usually crashed by early evening, leaving me guessing what Becky Vollmer Posted on July 27, 2015
Mental, Wellness The Persistent Optimist | When Full Feels Like Empty I woke up today with aching hands, a line of hot tension snaking down from my neck to my fingertips. Why am I in pain? I Jordan Rosenfeld Posted on July 20, 2015
Mental Me Time Keeps You From Choking People (Or How Selfishness Can Save Your Sanity) According to physics, Time is a scalar quantity. Translated for people like me who almost flunked that class, this means Nanea Hoffman Posted on July 15, 2015
Mental Pulling Threads When I was a child, the library of my little Catholic elementary school was my refuge. For a puny kid with terrible eyesight Nanea Hoffman Posted on May 14, 2015
Mental Recalibration | The Persistent Optimist A week ago I was feeling ansty. Restless for paths not taken and parallel lives in which exciting dramas played out on the Jordan Rosenfeld Posted on April 20, 2015
Mental, Wellness 7 Times You Were Probably Wrong About My Anxiety When you live with anxiety, you are accustomed to the incessant hum of adrenaline in your veins and the prickly Nanea Hoffman Posted on April 17, 2015
Culture, Family, Mental Love Me For Me, Not For My Leg Rolls Earlier this week, a company called Wry Baby sparked controversy with one of their baby onesies, which read “I hate my Emily Parker Posted on March 18, 2015
Inspiration, Mental, Self Care Done Is Better Than Perfect For many years, I wrote mostly in my head. I might spend an entire day or even a week formulating a single sentence, turning Nanea Hoffman Posted on March 6, 2015
Mental What’s Your Hurry? | The Persistent Optimist The backroads from my son’s school to our home are exquisite: hilly and finally green, since we’ve gotten just enough rain to Jordan Rosenfeld Posted on March 2, 2015