Reflections
This is where I write about connection, presence, and the small, ordinary moments where distance quietly begins — the same questions that led me to write Before the Distance Wins.
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The Word “Fine” and What It’s Actually Doing
There’s an exchange that happens to most of us dozens of times a day, so quickly that neither person really notices it happening. Someone asks, “How are you?” You say, “Fine.” It isn’t quite true and it isn’t quite false.…

