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Special 50th Episode of the 9 Thumbs Podcast, subtitled “We Actually Listen To Each Other”
If you’re like me, you’ve listened to episodes of the 9 Thumbs podcast and wondered whether we’ve ever followed through on our promises to try something another host has gushed over. This episode proves that we do! In honor of our 50th, we each reported on three things we tried after one of the other…
Read MoreLord Have Mercy
They say the storm was 2 miles across and stayed on the ground for 20 miles. They say it made a direct hit on two schools (full of children) and a hospital. They say that in one school, they aren’t doing search and rescue anymore. It’s search and recovery now. All I can think to…
Read MoreWho Is a Creator?
“For the past several generations we’ve forgotten what the psychologists call our archaic understanding, a willingness to know things in their deepest, most mythic sense. We’re all born with archaic understanding, and I’d guess that the loss of it goes directly along with the loss of ourselves as creators. “What do I mean by creators? Not…
Read MoreWhat Would You Say to Women Dreaming of Career AND Family?
This afternoon, I ran across an interesting question: “If you were giving a commencement speech, what’s one piece of advice you’d give to young women who want to include motherhood in their futures?” These young women are motivated. They’re graduating college, and if they’re anything like my friends and I were, they have big dreams.…
Read MoreFrom Metamorphosis to Millennials: The Latest 9Thumbs Episode
You know what’s fun about writing my own blog? I make the rules. I can go from a navel-gazing soul-searching post about the meaning of life and growing up to sharing the 9 Thumbs pop culture podcast without batting an eye. Which is exactly what I’m doing today. We all live in the world, not…
Read MoreWhen an Extrovert Goes Quiet: Finding Myself after Loss
I’m a slightly shy, somewhat awkward extrovert. By shy, I mean that I really have to psyche myself up to walk into a room full of strangers or into a group of people I haven’t met before. (I’ve never been so nervous as the day I arrived at the Miami airport to meet up with…
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