Spring Has Sprung, The Grass Is Riz Picture it: it’s 5:10 on a random weekday morning. My son and I are in the kitchen, silently but companionably together. I am drinking coffee and typing, and he is drinking his breakfast smoothie and staring off into space. Suddenly, I hear something I haven’t heard for a […]
Sassy, Sea Breeze, Stationary, Smoking
April 8, 2024 by 59 Comments
This week I read, and was completely absorbed by, a book that was set in 1998, and I think that is the reason I have been awash in nostalgia. I don’t know what you were doing in 1998, but I was in grad school, taking step aerobics classes, and crushing it during Name That Tune […]
Wrapped, Rapped, Rapt
December 4, 2023 by 62 Comments
Last Friday I woke up to the lightest dusting of SNOW, and people, I do not think I have ever been so excited by such a meteorological event. The first snow, IN DECEMBER! This is incredible to me, and also it felt so special and festive, even if it didn’t even cover the grass and […]
Miley and Me
June 12, 2023 by 65 Comments
The other day I woke up with No Scrubs stuck in my head; this isn’t an entirely strange thing, as I do like that song, and hear it fairly often on one of my playlists. What was strange, though, was how tenacious it was. All through my morning yoga practice I kept hearing hanging off […]
Two Christmas Miracles; Ninety-Two Weeks In
December 20, 2021 by 32 Comments
Here we are, in the homestretch to the Festive Finish Line, and I have not one, but TWO Christmas miracles to tell you about. Cue the hype-up music – are you ready for this? Christmas Miracle Number One: Costco Last week I was due for a Costco trip, and during this Pandemic At The Disco, […]
Brought To You By The Letter I; Forty-Five Weeks In
January 25, 2021 by 12 Comments
One of the most wonderful things about the world is that we are all so different; the world is a rich tapestry; as my grandma used to say, it takes all kinds of people to make a world. And yet, in many ways we are all the SAME; we all want to live our best […]
Boyhouse Year In Review 2020
December 30, 2020 by 6 Comments
WELL! I don’t think any of us could have possibly predicted the year that we just had, in any capacity. I would like to think that we will never take things for granted again: our health, our ability to travel, our friendships and family, but human nature being what it is, there will come a […]
