Author: Michele Rudenko

  • We Can Do Hard Things

    I realized something today. I’ve realized this before, and today the thought, the realization, got a frame. It’s hanging on my wall now. How I got here, to my framed realization, came from the last eight weeks of putting a garden together from scratch. The dream machine is my $89 electric rototiller. She is a…

  • The Power of We

    Like many of you, I am exhausted. Not so much physically, but emotionally drained. That quote, “Oh, I am very weary, Though tears no longer flow; My eyes are tired of weeping, My heart is sick of woe” (Anne Bronte), says a lot for me, maybe for you too.  Looking back to January 20, 2025,…

  • Take Time to Breathe

    So much BS comes at us throughout the day. Between whiskey Pete promising obliteration and Trump promising he’ll know when to end the senseless war he started when he feels it in his bones. That’s Trump babble 101; he never graduated to 102 because his brain fell out when he won the presidency through Project…