I can’t speak for all of you, my dear Slice of Sunshine readers, but I can say that for many folks, our resilience has been tested. We’ve been through so much—individually, collectively, globally—and while there are days it seems iffy, I still believe in our inherent capacity—again, individually, collectively, globally—to rebound. But our basic tools […]

You’re in the forest, minding your own business, when out of nowhere a tiger jumps onto your path. (In retrospect, maybe you shouldn’t have had your AirPods in.) What happens next? Most likely, your brain makes an instant calculation of how to increase the likelihood of survival. Do you run? Scale a tree? Throw it […]

I like to think that I have a good sense of humor. Of course, people who do not have a good sense of humor probably say the same thing.🧐 However. I do not like practical jokes so I have always found April Fool’s Day cringe-y. Similar to the way that I have a hard time watching very […]

Start with small changes Mr. Mallard was my 8th grade English teacher. Old school, rarely smiled, took points off if you turned in your paper with the “lace” from the notebook attached, and though he accepted late work, each day it dropped one grade (an “A” paper received two days late was automatically a “C,” […]

Our brains do not like uncertainty. For safety, we are “wired” to look for predictability and when that is not available, we may find ourselves trying to create it. One way this can manifest itself is by adopting what we could call a “switch mindset”: something is either ON or it is OFF. I either […]