fear | Gooch

You Can't Just Do It!

I’m caught in a cycle. Every morning I tell myself I’m going to accomplish THE THING. You know the one, the thing that I’ve been pushing...

On my 50 birthday I awoke jobless, homeless, alone for the first time in 30 years and able to say "I'm better than I should be." I was...

It’s been two years since I’ve walked into a yoga class. My muscles have formed a very tight union. Like most unions, they typically get...

Pain makes me stir crazy! I have been in a great deal of physical pain the last two weeks. Every waking minute I focus on how to get out...

Junior High seemed daunting, too much, too different, too foreign. I didn’t want to go. I drilled my sister, a year ahead of me in...

Short sheeting the bed is a favorite pastime of my extended family. Any family reunion is a guarantee someone’s bed will be short...

This all feels so overwhelming — anxiety, fear, stress, the unknown — it feels like too much some times. If you are like me, you are...

His face looked like a marshmallow after the flames had been blown off of it. I stood by his hospital bed packing him in ice every few...

Ida B Wells, an investigative journalist, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi on July 16, 1862, was the first of eight children. She was...

I am a huge Olympic fan, or maybe an Olympic junkie. I absolutely love watching the athletes experience “the thrill of victory and the...