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Vancouver the Beautiful
Ten days unplugged in British Columbia reminded me that stepping away from the noise is how we find our way back to the streams of creativity.
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You Can Go Home Again
A trip to Philadelphia to promote my book brought me back to the high-intensity rhythm of the East Coast — and to the graves of founding fathers who first pulled mental illness from the fringes.
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Suicide: Let's Talk About It
We still treat suicide as a stain on someone's character rather than the public-health crisis it is. Four years after losing my brother, I've learned that talking is our strongest weapon against stigma.
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When Postpartum Packs a Punch
Parenthood is paradox from the beginning — miraculous and grueling. When postpartum illness strikes, story and shared suffering become our most powerful antidotes.
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Hitch Your Wagon to a Star
After I told my kids to hitch their wagons to a star, my 5-year-old grabbed a grown-up book on mindful writing and my 8-year-old reached for a tome on Ancient Rome. Maybe Emerson is sinking in.
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On Loving, and Losing
Explaining death to my children after losing two friends reminded me that the unnatural severing of the human heart is our most accurate sensation — a sign we are not quite at home here.
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Three Years Gone, and Yet You're With Us
A letter to my brother on the third anniversary of his death — because depression may have won by human standards, but not by God's.
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Retroactive Grief
Watching friends send their children to college stirs a grief I didn't expect — mourning not just my mother, but the tears she never got to cry for me.
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Strasbourg Cathedral de Notre-Dame
Everything about Strasbourg's gothic cathedral draws the eye up — its light, its ancient expressions, its reminder that God is the source of all creativity.
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Nice vs. Antibes: Where's the Better View?
Stormy Antibes and sun-drenched Nice each offer their own shade of Mediterranean beauty — one cast in constant motion, the other in an edge-of-the-world calm.
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The Marvel of Mont Saint-Michel
A dream on a hill in Normandy, Mont Saint-Michel has drawn pilgrims and monks for over a thousand years. The moment you step onto its tide-washed land, you feel the divine appointment of it all.
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Streetside, Paris
All of Paris is art — from the symmetrical bliss of its streets to the scent of perfume, Vespa fumes, and crepes. If you have air in your lungs, this city will inspire you.
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