My default setting too often tips toward the “no” side when it comes to spontaneity and adventure. Thankfully, I’ve learned to push through my initial tendency toward resistance, and move the needle closer to yes more often and more enthusiastically. Once in a while, and among certain individuals, I’m unequivocally one thousand percent on board, all in, YES from the get-go. This past weekend? I was ALL IN. I think it shows. This post is part of #30BrighterDays; a thing I made up to brighten each day of November

When the iPhone battery loses most of its charge, you get a prompt to switch to “low power mode.” Low power mode costs you brightness and speed, but it saves the phone from dying. What great advice for humans; downshift to safeguard our energy before crashing. Since humans don’t come with convenient displays and toggle-switches, it isn’t always easy to identify when we need to conserve our power. Certain signals might catch our attention in the short term (hunger, exhaustion, bad mood, impatience), but symptoms of a longer-term deficit can prove harder to detect (general depression… Read More »Low Power Mode #30BrighterDays

Fall back. Fall back into leaf piles. Fall back into leaf-jumpers were adorable in theory, but leaf piles amassed by four capable raking bodies is infinitely better in practice. Fall back into the satisfaction of city leaf collectors taking all the leaf piles away. Fall back into Stranger Things. Fall back into a boy in your bed, afraid of Stranger Things, who keeps wanting to watch Stranger Things. Fall back into chili and dal and a full menu of child-repellent stews. Fall back into you may help yourself to a bowl of cereal instead. No… Read More »Fall Back #30BrighterDays