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Category: Silly Pop Culture References

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Coaching

Your ordinary, extraordinary life

There is a form if you’d like to share on this topic below. The first part of my life, I wanted to be extraordinary. Driven by a distant…

July 16, 2024July 16, 2024 · 3 min read

Mommess

Hemingway, quantum mechanics, and personal inquiry

I think it was Earnest Hemingway who said to write well, start with one true sentence. My true sentences come from my raw, emotional questions and experiences —…

July 13, 2024July 15, 2024 · 4 min read

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Culture

We can only get insulted if we’ve hidden our real mission

There are Clark Kents all over the place. Example: as a teen, once I became skilled enough as a waitress to do the job (i.e. get the right…

July 12, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

Donut Holes & Superpowers:

probing the philosophy of nothingness in daily life How consciousness works, how it lives, dies, and transforms has been a preoccupation of mine since I was a girl…

June 28, 2024July 13, 2025 · 3 min read

Mommess

The Upside Down of Spiritual Awakening

I used to think of spiritual awakening as a good thing: a sign that someone had accumulated enough spiritual merit to deserve to see behind the veil, and…

June 16, 2024June 16, 2024 · 8 min read

Coaching

Taking a Hot Second to do The Work

I’ve come to know Byron Katie’s The Work as a strategic identity cleanse, a chance to remove harmful beliefs with surgical precision. If you don’t have time or…

June 9, 2024April 7, 2025 · 3 min read

Creativity

art, science and a metaphysical bullseye

My friend Alix, developed a metaphysical system* over a dozen years ago, that represents people in a simple, meaningful pattern in color. She spent several years researching, assigning,…

June 2, 2024November 8, 2024 · 4 min read

Culture

Voting to pay taxes in ashes?

I’m calling out those who wield destructive energy, calling to “burn down” the government. (If talking money is the only way to get your attention- so be it.)…

September 27, 2023September 27, 2023 · 6 min read

Culture

Code me up – Complicated

My 13 year old and I had one of our more interesting talks the other day. My kids had dragged me to a movie they love, full of…

August 9, 2023August 9, 2023 · 3 min read

Culture

#LiberalsLastLonger #Vote

October 9, 2020June 3, 2022 · 1 min read

Best of Mommess

This isn’t allowed anymore

If I hear one more person refer to “the media” as a monolith, I’m going to… to…. Really, we know better than this, don’t we? There is no…

October 11, 2019June 2, 2023 · 3 min read

Culture

The Truth Beat – The Authoritarian Directive Broken Down

The other day I looked down to glance at a news paragraph on my phone. It said something like, “there are increasing ethical and criminal breaches at the…

May 8, 2018May 29, 2023 · 3 min read

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