Looking forward to having my dear friend Peter on my podcast. Peter was the best man in our wedding, and he and I are going to discuss adult friendships.

On this side of death, we simultaneously hold so very many “both/ands.” My colleague and dear friend Jill had a conversation with me about grief, and how we constantly hold both grief and joy (and a bazillion emotions, thoughts, and feelings in between).

My husband Jeremy and I have done a few podcasts in the last few months. Before engaging in this endeavor I had not listened to one entire podcast in my life, (I prefer audiobooks, and if I am interested in a podcast I just read the transcript), but it was an opportunity to stretch and grow by doing something uncomfortable.

I have trouble reckoning with the many feelings that emerge for me during national presidential election cycles. Our wonderfully complicated yet surprisingly lazy brains like things to be as simple and binary and dualistic as possible, and we often think and make decisions from our “lizard brain.”

*Note: This post contains some vulgar language.