What are you holding in, and how is it getting out?

Freedom reflects on the end of her addiction to self-help books, her decision to leave her job, and how to tell when something in your life needs to be changed or accepted.

Michael Jackson passed today. Upon reflecting on why his passing is so painful, I realized a few things:

One rainy afternoon in Philly, after departing from a lunch meeting  with a colleague, a woman approached me as I turned towards Lancaster Walk. The woman was worn, disheveled, obviously in need. I braced myself for her request:

Almost every night, I do something that some people may think is stupid and dangerous. It is something that I didn’t even start doing until I moved to Philadelphia. I would never dream of doing this in any of the other places I’ve lived; not Chicago, P.G. County Maryland and I rarely did it in [...]