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...

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...

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...

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...

Whitey Bulger, Ticks, and Tornados

What do the following things have in common: Whitey Bulger and his crew of murderous thugs, new tick-borne diseases, and unexpected tornados in Eastern Massachusetts? Give up? Perhaps its the message to stay on High Alert. Perhaps its the message that the world is a...