by Terra Osterling | Mar 15, 2021 | Experiences, Game-changers, Uncategorized
Prologue: As of this writing, 2.65 million people worldwide have died of Covid-19. Deaths in the United States number more than half a million. There are millions more who survived the virus. And millions more who have lost everything, but their life, to the shutdown....
by Terra Osterling | Apr 29, 2020 | Game-changers, Motivation, Nature, Uncategorized
Sta·sis /ˈstāsis/ Noun: A period or state of inactivity or equilibrium. Prologue: I started thinking about the concept of stasis as long ago as last fall when I jotted it into my journal, pondered through winter, and finally began writing in the first days of March....
by Terra Osterling | Dec 20, 2019 | Storytelling, Uncategorized
I was almost four and a half in the summer of 1977. Just a baby nerd-introvert. My mom was having a Tupperware party and wanted everyone out of the house, so my dad took my sister and me to the movies. I was so small that I could stand up in the row and put my chin on...
by Terra Osterling | Feb 4, 2019 | Experiences, Inspiration
I am not a good dancer. That doesn’t stop me from tearing it up in the kitchen to my 80s music mix. I used to dance a lot more, and in public; despite my introvert persona, I rarely missed a school dance as a teenager. Music has always moved me, literally. During...
by Terra Osterling | Dec 1, 2017 | Outside my comfort zone, Storytelling, Uncategorized
Not long ago I came across an old driver’s license issued to me in 2000, when I was 27 years old. Driver license photos do not tend to be the most flattering likeness of a person, but as I peer at a seventeen-years-younger me through the reader-portion of my...
