TAKE IT ON THE RUN
'M ON THE RUN. I can't wait for the holidays to be over. It's all just too much. Too much eating, drinking, shopping, running around, gift-wrapping, doing. Yes, there is genuinely a lot to do. And, like so many of you reading this, I take on more than my share of...
No Feeling Is Final
Ever have one of those days where you just feel "off"? I mean, everything is technically fine, everyone is where they belong, but something just doesn't feel right? I struggled with this recently. Couldn't figure out what triggered it (which is kind of frustrating),...
The Most Important Ingredient In Your Spice Rack
The Most Important Seasoning in Your Spice Rack. Oh My Goodness. They're upon us again. The Holidays. The hustle-bustle. The overspending, overeating, overeverything. With all this going on, the temptation, of course, is to try to fix everything and everyone,...
I’m Not Perfect And I Love It.
It's official. I'm over it. I'm done with trying to be "perfect". (Not that I was ever near making it to perfect, anyway). But I am done with apologizing for my imperfections, my humanness. Done with trying to hide the couple pounds I might have gained, done with...
Disorganized Crime: The Closet.
I'm not a natural organizer when it comes to "stuff". Like closets. But, seeing a neat closet somehow makes me feel that the world is in order. So, it was with some degree of existential agony that I opened a very organized closet this weekend, only to find it rummage...
Rage (uh, ZEN) AGAINST THE MACHINE
The whirl of the "machine" is starting up again---the schedules, the lunch bags, the shopping, the squeezing of summer back into her 9-month-straight jacket. The temptation is to lose ourselves in the rush to get it all done. And without our connection to ourselves,...
