I think I’ve mentioned that my team at the university has a weekly meeting virtual where we share something about ourselves based on a question that…
Pick Your New Year’s Day
On the Gregorian Calendar New Year’s Day is January 1, which is only a few weeks away. January 1 isn’t the only New Year celebrated…
Fuelling Up
When I’m being mindful of what I’m eating, I try to focus on eating things that will give me the fuel I need to do…
I’m Always Learning Something
I was doing a PhD. I passed my qualifying exam to get in, completed my course work, and passed my comprehensive exam. I was about…
Fun in Unlikely Situations
On Saturday it started to snow and continued snowing through to Sunday when it really started to snow. It was the worst blizzard we’d had…
We Need You
This has been a rough week, within a rough year, and we still have very challenging times ahead of us. How do we keep moving…
Self-Care For Nations
Imagine for a moment how the pandemic might have played out without political polarization. Imagine how it might have played out if everyone had access…
Focus on the Path, Not Just the Outcomes
My friend John, who was a guest on one of the first episodes of the Better Me Podcast, teaches at Virginia Tech. For awhile he…
Catching Up With Better Me
I launched this blog in the Fall of 2017 and continued it through a very challenging bout of depression that started not quite a year…
Find the Simple Pleasures
It snowed this week. It’s the first snow of the season, which seems strange to me because there was still snow on the ground from…
