You know, Mom, you might want to consider switching up your routine, my older son said to me. That way, if someone doesn’t see you for a few days, they won’t think Rex died. It’s not like I walk the exact same route at the exact same time every single day, but I do often […]
Archives for 2025
Five For Friday: The Travel Essentials Edition
October 24, 2025 by
The Right Stuff. As is my wont, I travelled through Morocco – and Paris – for nearly three weeks with only a carryon. Once you go Carryon-Only, you can never go back. There’s no feeling like simply getting off the plane and GOING, and of zipping through the streets of your destination with only a […]
A Moroccan Adventure
October 20, 2025 by
Hi friends! How are you? I am back from my adventure – actually, I got back Wednesday evening but I have been SO busy! In the days since I have been back I have a) line read Inhale Exhale AGAIN, this time in order to approve the layout, and there were some small changes that […]
Nicole’s Favourite Things: The Fall Follies Edition
September 25, 2025 by
I was at the dog park last week, walking in my usual loop, when I passed by a man I see quite frequently. He’s probably in his 70s, and he has two dogs, one of them a very young puppy. This is against the rules – dogs less than four months are not permitted in […]
Bounty and the Bust
September 22, 2025 by
Who Loves You? I was listening to an interview with Anne Lamott, who is a writer and person that I very much admire. She was talking about the concept of self-care, and how her entire life these days is based on self-care, which felt quite resonant to me. Recently someone asked me what I do […]
The Great Judy Blume Re-read
September 18, 2025 by
Thank you all for your lovely and thoughtful comments on Monday’s post about Using The Good Things/ Driving The Ferrari. I feel inspired anew to revel in the things I love and to pass along the things I don’t. Writing it, I thought of the Mary Oliver poem “Storage.” There’s no one like Mary Oliver. […]
Pulling The Ferrari Out Of The Garage
September 15, 2025 by
Several months ago I listened to a podcast interview of a man who, with the exception of his car and the possessions he had hastily packed into it, lost everything in the Los Angeles fires. He was remarkably sanguine about the situation, saying that although his house and everything in it burned to the ground, […]
