by Gail Heney | Feb 15, 2023 | FEATURING ENGAGE
Over coffee the other day a long-time friend looked straight into my eyes – how are you – she asked. I immediately felt a flutter of discomfort in my chest. She’s not one that would settle with my noncommittal “all is well” or “I’m good thanks” followed by a well... 
by Gail Heney | Feb 2, 2023 | FEATURING ENGAGE
The themes of finitude and dying are consuming time in my day. I’m not sure why. I am healthy and fortunate that no recent grief has take over my heart and mind. I am in the last half of my sixth decade. I want to believe the actuarial tables that tell me I have 20... 
by Gail Heney | Jan 19, 2023 | FEATURING ENGAGE
I am a person of urgency and not enough. As I unpack my life, bit by bit, attempting to source an understanding of where I might find a core of peace and self acceptance, the excruciating truths are my teachers. Family folklore is adamant that I learned to swim before... 
by Gail Heney | Jul 5, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
At some point in the early spring, I noticed an interesting intersection of weariness and creative restlessness. My routine of weekly blog writing was feeling challenging; I feared it had become hollow. I was being drawn further into the notion of a larger project as... 
by Gail Heney | May 4, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
I usually experience the energetic surge to evaluate, purge and stretch my comfort zone in the fall. September is my New Year – characterized by the compulsion to examine my clothes closet, my bookshelves, my waistline and the files taking space in my mind. All... 
by Gail Heney | Apr 6, 2022 | FEATURING ENGAGE
I know more people, including myself, who have had one of the covid variants, or currently have it, than at any other time during the two-year pandemic. This is coinciding with the end of mask mandates, the opening of all social and event venues with no capacity...