Flailing and Skating

Liza Donnelly
2 min readFeb 13, 2022

I feel sometimes like I am alternatively flailing and skating through life — words that could be considered opposite, in my case they fit my feelings. I think sometimes in order to skate, you have to flail a good bit. I think also it has something to do with the pandemic still with us. I did a cartoon this week using a made-up word: “overish.” Things have shifted in our world, and I am learning how to navigate it — hence the more frequent feeling of…

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Liza Donnelly

Visual journalist/writer for New Yorker, New York Times, WaPo. TED, SXSW speaker. Looking to change world w humor. newsletter:https://lizadonnelly.substack.com