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Spirit

  • New Directions

    The Road Not Taken

    Chances are, you know the Robert Frost poem with which this post shares a title. What you may not know is that it’s one of the most widely misread poems in the world. (This…

  • Positive Pressure and Negative Stress

    Has anyone ever told you that you’re too hard on yourself? That’s a comment I’ve heard more than once. I usually laugh it off and respond with something like Are you kidding? I let…

  • The 5 People You Need In Your Life

    I’ve never been the sort of person to have a best friend. That bothered me a lot, when I was younger–all I wanted was one person I could count on. One person I knew…

  • Everything Leads to Something

    One of the great things about living in a city the size of San Antonio is that you can, once in a while, surround yourself with people who love the same things you do.…

  • Learning to Live With Rejection

    When I was in graduate school, I had a classmate who was an excellent poet. She won the departmental award for poetry writing at the end of her first year, beating out even the…

  • New Directions

    New Beginnings

    There’s something about the change of seasons that I find really energizing. It doesn’t even matter which season we’re talking about–something about them makes me feel like new beginnings are always presenting themselves. Now,…