by Mary B Safrit | Dec 29, 2020 | Relationships and Community, Teaching
If you’re like me, this is the time of year when I generally reflect and look ahead to the coming year. Though 2020 has been abnormal, to put it mildly, some traditions help to steady the ship. Here are 20 things I learned in 2020. Given the choice between doing...
by Mary B Safrit | Oct 1, 2020 | How-to's, Relationships and Community
It is an overwhelming time to be a person. Wildfires, persistent and systemic racial injustice, a pandemic, the upcoming election. On top of the psychological and emotional taxation of these realities, we have our own personal lives to live. We continue to work or...
by Mary B Safrit | Aug 27, 2020 | How-to's, Relationships and Community
Friendships can feel tenuous at the best of times. Someone gets a job and moves within a month. Someone starts a dating relationship and disappears into the ether. When things change and friendships shift, it can be challenging to talk about that kind of loss. But if...
by Mary B Safrit | May 14, 2020 | Relationships and Community, Teaching
I sat in Dr. Therapist’s office recounting my week. It was my Monday ritual, to start the week sitting on that couch and untangling the thread of ordinary and extraordinary incidents. As we came to the end of the session, he concluded in the usual manner: “Any last...
by Mary B Safrit | Apr 3, 2020 | Parables, Relationships and Community
He’s getting married tomorrow, this guy I liked one time. I never wanted to be the one he turned to see when waiting anxiously at the altar. I just liked making him laugh. I was never sappy and love-sick, moony or weak-kneed. But we understood each other and at the...
by Mary B Safrit | Mar 28, 2020 | Parables, Relationships and Community
After our initial lice party, we realized how woefully unprepared we were to address our problem. A week later, we checked each other again, only to find a thriving colony in most of our tresses. With the exception of the one who didn’t have lice before, in whose hair...
