Posts Tagged ‘transitioning’

How I Wash My Dreadlocks (Video) and Other Dreaded Things

I’ve had enough people ask how I wash my dreadlocks naturally, that I made a video. For you curiouser minds. And here’s my official announcement… For three and a half years I haven’t felt I was anywhere near cutting my dreads. That’s changed now. I don’t mean the time is NOW. But I feel like [...]

The Carousel of Leaving

I feel like I’ve been here before, this familiar but different place. It’s transition, known and unknown to us. We’ve already said our goodbyes a year ago, but only for the year. It was difficult but exciting. And now we’re embarking for the last time and with no plans for return. And it’s not exactly [...]

A Week in Transition (Or Surrender and Acceptance)

We’re aiming to make this our last week off the road. By Friday, we will be heading toward Southern California; Disneyland to be exact. Transition is always emotionally and spiritually full. We get filled with thoughts of what needs to be done, timelines and deadlines and regret. We scurry, we ebb and flow, we forget [...]

Evicted (and moving through it)

There is a reason I’m a writer. It’s how I process and understand where I am and Who I Am and what’s going on. I write not because I already have all the answers (although I do believe we all always have our own answers when we’re ready for them), but to find the answers [...]

Bittersweet Thursday

We said our first round of goodbyes today. One of my closest friends is also the mom of one of Zeb’s closest friends and when we went to pick Zeb up from their sleepover, we did our best to say goodbye to Elizabeth before she heads out of town tomorrow. She was one of the [...]