I feel like, for the first time ever, I am really tasting the magic of an in-season cantaloupe. Sweet. Juicy. Impossibly delicious. Gone are the years of buying those plastic fruit containers from Whole Foods and eating the pale, sad-looking cubes because it felt wasteful not to. Turns…
Growing pains are described as crampy, achy, muscle pains that occur in the legs of preschoolers or preteens. To me, theses pangs seem kinda unfair because right when you are on the precipitance of ‘getting it’ and/or understanding who you are and the life you have come to…
The spirit (I believe) is something otherworldly or divine that takes over the body and usurps the brain when we are completely present to the moment at hand. Its possession is an opportunity for us to step aside and get out of our own way. And to get…
Dark is the night Monday December 21st is the winter solstice, the longest period of darkness before the light of day returns to us. A celebration of night. Last week, while speaking and considering the gifts I had been given this year, I was loath to admit that the hurt…
Tis the season I have always been a BIG fan of Thanksgiving. While growing up, if someone we knew didn’t have somewhere to go, they came to our house to sit at our table, and to be welcomed into a home. Sometimes our little dining room looked more like…
Woof… #realtalk…Yesterday was a really hard day. And when I say day, I mean that by 9:30am it felt like 9:30pm, and I was done. Done like I was ready to put on my jammies, curl up with a whiskey, some bad TV and call it by 10am. This…