• Russian blue cat standing near ceramic vase with artificial flowers

    Comfort zone’s safe arms

    To quote a JP Saxe’s song, I’m trying not to listen to the part of me that knows. How it all begins and how it ends; that after Monday comes Tuesday, and October follows September. I can be be comfortable, like the rest of you, in the inner routine I’ve built in, even when it doesn’t translate to anything fruitful. Comfort zones have been given a bad rep. Perhaps there’s some truth in that your comfort zone can kill you. But there is a reason why you run back onto those comfortable four corners when nothing seems right — and even when it does, we go right back into comfort…

  • Out of My Comfort Zone

    Have you ever just felt really out of place at some place at some point in your life? I wrote this down on my notepad as I downed some tacos at a bar one night, a few years ago. What I wrote was much longer — the rest of it made it to my book of essays Nostalgia and Deal Breakers. These isolation times are reminding me of those earlier times for some reason. Can you relate? A lot of people are afraid to admit these sort of things. For the record, it’s healthy to let it out of your system! Here’s the story I took a deep breath upon…