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 | 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...
by Terra Osterling | Nov 30, 2016 | Adirondacks, Experiences, Inspiration, Lessons from Faith, Nature, Poetry
I am not below ground. I am far up above in the sky, on a peak of rock. On the peak of me. Getting here was not guaranteed. Climbing over rocks and logs, feet moving over loose stone, knotty roots, and slick pine needles. A push from behind is needed to surmount a...
by Terra Osterling | Oct 30, 2016 | Experiences, Lessons from Faith
This post has been a long time coming. At this writing, it has been a little over two years and nine months since I was first diagnosed with melanoma. Treatment involved: ~ 2 general anesthetic surgeries within 2 weeks of each other. The first a procedure to remove a...
by Terra Osterling | Jul 7, 2016 | Outside my comfort zone
“What? WHAT THE F*CK?!” This is not a good way to start the day. Shuffling into the kitchen, putting on the kettle, flipping on the morning news—this is routine. The news flickers on and the announcer prefaces an upcoming clip about an officer-related fatal...
