Anxieties about money? Let me talk you down.

I just uploaded a short story from Nathaniel Hawthorne for my bedtime, short story podcast. In this podcast I am attempting to address the anxieties that many of us face as we lay down to sleep. Seems like certain anxieties simply wait around for us to get into bed before coming to visit us. This…

Cultivating Hope

I am an insufferable optimist. It can be quite vexing to people around me. Whether predicting how much time something will take, what something will cost, or how many people we’ll be able to fit in our living room, my optimistic estimates usually outstrip reality. But optimism is not the same as hope. Optimism is…