Essays, Reflections, Postcards, Letters

Letters to guide you over the threshold.

This is where I share my observations and hard-won insights. Letters about becoming, about self-reclamation, about the specific exhaustion of being the strong one — and what happens when you finally let yourself be.

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Latest Love Letter ・June 2026

Waiting to be barefoot

Last month, sitting on a catamaran in the Aegean Sea, I heard a voice. Clearly enough that I looked up to find its source. But no one was there — only open water.

You need to be barefoot more often.

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Everything that did not get into a letter.

Once a month, a Love Letter arrives in your inbox. In between, there are smaller things — postcards, half-finished thoughts, a meal worth remembering — that never quite became a letter of their own. Here’s where I keep them, for anyone who wants a little more.

The Particular Isolation of Asking Hard Questions

There's the isolation that comes from standing your ground, and there's the one that comes from never trying. What choosing one over the other actually costs.
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Why Women Should Vote

From the archives: This essay was originally posted on this site on September 22, 2008. I’ve made a few adjustments (shown) that reflect my current
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Reflections on a Jubilee

A biblical word for setting things free — debts forgiven, land returned — borrowed for the year I turned sixty. On what returned to me,
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For All Humankind —

For a few moments, in the temporary darkness of a total solar eclipse, we must recognize the power of the natural world.
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Summer Nostalgia and Longing

What does it mean to be barefoot more often?
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What Real Transformation Looks Like

I have attended events that genuinely changed my life. The difference is that I didn't know it at the time.
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Longevity, Legacy, and a Life Well Lived

What will I leave behind that made a genuine difference to someone else? What idea, habit, relationship, or work will outlive my physical presence in
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