© Jem Sullivan
Relationship advice
I am drawn to these lyrics. I can’t stop thinking about them. I play this great Jackson … Read More
This is what the storms brought—all these broken treasures, delivered right to my bare feet on the beach in front of the house. It was up to me however, to gather them and make something beautiful with them. How did I do?
I’m getting better at it, y’all, so much better since my own great storm. I can work with fragments and shards—pieces with the … Read More
Things that make you go, ahhh…
That’s my ulterior motive, just so you know—to make you go ahhh… I hope to calm you down before your day shakes you up. (How am I doing?)
I rise every morning before dawn, eager to see what the morning brings, because I now know, despite the quotidian routine of my mornings—teeth-brushing, bed-making, coffee drinking, dog feeding, husband … Read More
Mercury is in retrograde. That is my excuse—well, one of them, anyway. My new favorite. That’s why I feel like this.
I’m discombobulated—feeling lousy, anxious and discouraged. All … Read More
I started crying in the middle of an exercise class I was teaching Wednesday. I thought I had gotten it over with—driving over the bridge on the way there—but music has a way of squeezing out every last bit of emotion—and when that old Four Tops song, Reach Out, I’ll Be There, started playing, I got all weepy again. … Read More