Here’s a fact most of us don’t want to say because it makes us sound bitter and jaded but I’m going to say it anyway because- well maybe I am bitter and jaded. But when I reflect on this truth I don’t do it with bitterness in my heart; I do it with an understanding and acceptance…
Continue reading ➞ You’re Invited!
We talk about comfort like it’s this boring thing to avoid. We should want adventure. Crave adventure. Pursue adventure. Like adventure is the goal. We should want to travel and explore and not settle down because settling down is the beginning of losing yourself and the worst thing you can do is lose yourself in…
Continue reading ➞ Call Me Comfortable
F.Y.I. And if you are or you’re in a relationship with a woman then you know exactly the tone in which I’m saying Eff. Why. Eye. Sometimes we can’t do it all. Actually, never can we ever do it all. But if you’re anything like me then you’ll try. And you’ll keep trying until you…
Continue reading ➞ Burn Baby, Burn
I hate summer now and I didn’t used to. But my kids love it and I wanted to reclaim some of that joy and I think that joy is found in the moment to moment choices where we decide whether we’re gonna be rushed or take our time, where we’re gonna be present or preoccupied,…
Continue reading ➞ Oh for Fork’s Sake
Never have I ever been the type to enjoy the process. And take all your journeying and give me all the destinations because I just enjoy the part where it is done. After hemming and hawing for almost 2 years over a replacement patio table because ours was sun worn enough to disintegrate beneath our…
Continue reading ➞ Nit-pic Table
You know what? Life is hard. Sometimes the hard is so unrelenting and the pockets of joy are so few and far between and their relief so temporary that it feels like the hard is what life is now. When my kids were teeny tiny and I was in the trenches of toddler hard, many…
Continue reading ➞ Night Lights
When I was a teen I spent hours connecting to dial up internet on our single family computer and scouring whatever search engine came with circa 1998 for inspirational quotes. I then printed out those quotes and pasted them in a spiral notebook that I would thumb through on the regular. Like a caveman. But,…
Announcing a social media departure may be one of the biggest faux pas a millennial can commit but I’m a solid-born-in-1984-millennial and I don’t know how to do things without over explaining myself so here we are. It’s no secret that online apps have offered me more anxiety than education and it’s also no secret…
Continue reading ➞ Shut It Down
There’s a chapter in my book detailing my love affair with cigarettes (yes, that’s a shameless book plug but trust I have a point) and if I’m being honest, it is a battle that comes up quite often. And it comes up most often in times of stress and if there is one thing I…
Continue reading ➞ Easy Does It
There’s something about finding your people that is incredible. I spent a lot of years in this online space believing that my words held value even when my book proposal was turned down by agent after agent after agent. They all offered similar feedback: your social media following is just too small. Read: my words…
Continue reading ➞ Heart and Soulful
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