Check out some of my most popular stories. — Hello and thank you for following me. My name is Rose Bak. I am a writer based in Portland, Oregon. I am a dedicated multipotentialite which means I have a wide array of interests and creative pursuits. …

There are some days that can’t be saved. Here’s how to make the best of them. — Want to receive all the latest stories from Rose Bak? Become a Medium member! Join Medium with my referral link - Rose Bak Read every story from Rose Bak (and thousands of other writers on Medium). Your membership fee directly supports Rose…medium.com We’ve all been there. Those days when it feels like the world is shifting off its axis and you have one of those dark clouds over your head like Charlie Brown.

Save yourself some pain at the pump with these simple tips. — With gas prices rising by the day, filling up your tank has become painful. Rapidly increasing inflation, stagnant wages, and decreased investment in infrastructure like road repair are making the impact of high gas prices even more noticeable. While we’ll likely never see the ultra cheap gas prices of the…

Why people’s emotions override their ability to reason. If you look at any major hot button issue, one thing becomes clear: many people believe their feelings are facts. This seems particularly true with political issues. We see people who think abortion is murder but support the death penalty. People who…

Officials prepare to help residents stay safe this weekend. — While most of the country has already been experiencing high temperatures and “heat domes”, the Portland area has remained stubbornly cool and rainy. That’s about to change. …

Constant trauma will eventually get to you, no matter how hard you try to shield yourself. — There comes a time in every empath’s life when they start to feel cracks in their emotional shields. For many of us, including me, that time is now. You can only be battered with so many terrible stories, so much trauma, so many difficult emotions, so much bad news, before…

40 years later, I’m still learning how to manage my scoliosis. — Early on in my Yoga Teacher Training program, we were talking about our path to yoga and our decision to enroll in Teacher Training. Although I started doing yoga in the mid-1990s, the genesis of my yoga practice goes much farther back, to some time around 1980. When I was…

Showing a little humanity in the workplace can go a long way. It’s been a hard week. A hard month. A hard two years. And as a manager of a large and diverse team, I’ve felt this acutely, especially this week. Over the last two weeks, I’ve tried to support…