Author: Dana Young
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Saying goodbye to Friday
In the nearly four years since my daughter was born, I have spent almost every Friday with her. When I went back to work after my 4 months of maternity leave were up, I chose a compressed schedule that allowed me the opportunity to spend one day during the week with her. After I lost my job…
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Kokoro: of one heart with Japan
Like so many around the world, I have experienced anguish, heartache and deep worry for the people of Japan following last week’s earthquake and tsunami. Their nuclear crisis is still unfolding and shows no immediate signs of abating. There is so much I could say about this disaster, but I wanted to focus on something more…
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The wounds we carry within
Today, I went to my chiropractor for my weekly adjustment. There’s been some odd, funky, dull pain in the middle part of the left side of my back. I can’t pinpoint where it came from either. My back has been doing quite well lately (knock wood.) After the adjustment, I received a short massage from a…
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The snake in the water: dealing with life’s uncertainties
During a recent Reiki treatment I facilitated via distance for a client, I had an unusual experience. I’m naturally a bit claivoyant, and occasionally may tap into imagery or information present in the client’s subconscious. There is no consistency to this and it’s not a regular part of my Reiki treatment; it sometimes just happens. (If it seems appropriate…
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Celebrating International Womens’ Day
In honor of International Womens’ Day, I wanted to share my appreciation and gratitude for some very wonderful women who have shaped and nurture the woman I am today. First, my mom, Kathaleen Lustig. She taught me to be self-sufficient, responsible, polite, creative and considerate of other peoples’ needs. She put many of her own dreams…
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Who do I need to be now? Shifting my priorities
In the six months since losing my job, I have had to re-evaluate many of my own assumptions about what it means to be “successful” – as a business person, a mother, wife and maybe even as a woman. It’s amazing how easily we can become attached to our own notions, and also how groundless it feels…
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My Valentine’s Day anniversary
Four years ago, when I was 7 months pregnant with our daughter, my husband Seth and I got married. We decided to get married on Valentine’s Day because we thought it would be fun. We hadn’t really considered that we could never actually go out to dinner on our anniversary without making a reservation months in advance, or rubbing…
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Learning to navigate through the sensory landscape: life with SPD
I’ve recently started blogging for the SPD Blogger Network, a website designed for those writing about raising a child with Sensory Processing Disorder. A couple of my posts should be published soon, and I’m hoping it will be helpful for others who are trying to understand what it’s like to live with and help raise a…
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The (not so) secret life of poets
A childhood friend of mine, who is in the process of writing a novel and is blogging about it, asked me to write a post about how I was able to get my poetry published. That’s a pretty interesting story, in and of itself. In early spring of 1999, I went to a party at my friend…
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Winter one better do me one better
It’s the dead of winter, remember Sun setting red on the hill of red trees Cold dusk’s blue clouds white skies I count the days I dream (Bernadette Mayer, Midwinter Day) I’m having a serious case of February. I thank Martha Beck for her humorous and insightful blog post about coping with the doldrums of…
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