One of the reasons I believe Rabbit is such a helpful totem for me is that fear is such a strong emotion within me. I'm afraid all the time, of various things real and imagined, and that fear drives a great deal of my behavior. One of the lessons Rabbit teaches is how to move … Continue reading The Anxious Rabbit
Category: Better Living Through Stories
My 35th Year
Last Thursday I celebrated my 35th birthday. If I'm lucky, this puts me squarely in the territory of early middle age. That means that for the most part, I'm starting to have fewer days ahead of me than there are behind. It's a sobering thought, but not a depressing one. Unlike most I really don't … Continue reading My 35th Year
Opening Up the Hidden Heart
There are very few things as alienating as feeling like some deep part of yourself isn't understood, or worse, hated. We each have core aspects of ourselves that we prefer to keep hidden -- only showing them to a few people we trust. Sometimes we don't get to trust anyone, and we move through life … Continue reading Opening Up the Hidden Heart
Rabbit-Hearted Guy
No Shame Day was last week and I completely missed it, so I thought I would take a bit of time to open up further about my mental health issues. I believe that the more we discuss these things openly, the more people understand the nature of mental illness and the more we destigmatize those … Continue reading Rabbit-Hearted Guy
What I Learned from the 2014 Clarion Write-A-Thon
What did I learn after writing 50,000 words in six weeks for charity? Well, I'll tell you...
The Light Shines in a Trenchcoat
I've recently come to appreciate the singular pleasure of a good detective story. I've been on a bit of a run with them of late, and I think it started with the broken-down post-millennial duo of True Detective's Hart and Cohle. It took Nic Pizzolatto's spitshine of the detective story to really get me to … Continue reading The Light Shines in a Trenchcoat
Personal: All of the Injustices in the World
Over the weekend, my dear husband played a beautifully ridiculous game called Asura's Wrath. It's not so much a video game as an interactive story, and this is the way the story goes: a demigod named Asura is one of the Eight Celestial Generals charged with protecting the world from monsters called Golma. After helping … Continue reading Personal: All of the Injustices in the World
The AFI Top 100 Films: Gone With The Wind (#4)
Gone With The Wind (1939) Starring Vivian Leigh, Clark Gable, Olivia de Havilland and Leslie Howard Written by Sidney Howard (screenplay) and Margaret Mitchell (novel) Directed by Victor Fleming When I was but a wee leveret in the wilds of Baltimore City, I loved Gone With The Wind. This was a time before it (or … Continue reading The AFI Top 100 Films: Gone With The Wind (#4)
Project Plan – March 2014
I don't know if I've mentioned that I'm interested in learning the fine art of project management before, but I am. It's actually a pretty neat idea; clearly defining an attainable goal, determining what needs to happen in order for that goal to be reached, and breaking the big goal into smaller chunks that you … Continue reading Project Plan – March 2014
Practicing the Gospel
A friend of mine was asking me a number of questions about my opinion on villains, crossovers and the like. I was surprised to listen to my answers, actually -- they seemed so strict, so high-minded and (dare I say it?) pretentious. It's like making fun of all those folks who call writing some sort … Continue reading Practicing the Gospel
From the Desk of Jakebe T. Rabbit 