being “the best”

I had my first writing class this evening and I’m finding myself in this familiar place afterward… one that seems to make up much of what I choose to do lately: I don’t want to, but I am willing.  I don’t want to face all of the emotions and...

conflict avoidance is going to kill me… literally

This afternoon I was happily doing some work from my home computer on my fancy, new virtual network connection when I got a call from my therapist.  It was about 2:15, 45 minutes before what I thought was our scheduled appointment time and I realized as soon as I saw...