Crown of Years How old do you feel? Like, on the inside? Because I have spent the last two decades feeling like a perpetual 27-year-old. Not on the outside, though. Nope. That ship is chugging toward the horizon faster than I care to admit. I tell myself it doesn’t matter. That I’m only as old as […]
Third Eye Not Blind If you were a reader of this newsletter last year, you may remember that I wrote about being sort of paralyzed due to it being my mom’s birthday. It’s the third birthday since she passed, and it really feels like something I should be able to navigate without a big production. But […]
The Beat Goes On It is always a strangely magical experience when a piece of music stuns me. How does a collection of instruments and voices become something so powerful that my mind can be shifted into another realm of understanding? A song can move my body as much as my mind. It can send me soaring […]
How to Love a Curveball How do we stay mindful when the wild, wild world we live in keeps throwing us curveballs? I’m over here busy ducking and jumping or swinging and missing. I mean, don’t get me wrong, sometimes I get a base hit, maybe even a double or sometimes a triple. But the home […]
Waking Well In the wee hours of the morning, long before the sun comes up, my alarm clock goes off. Time to get up and start the day. I am a “hit the snooze button several times” kind of gal, but since other people who don’t have alarm clocks rely on me getting them to school […]
Sacred Strength In my mind, I’m sorry for being a little too much. Too much like my dad. Too much like my grandmother. And too much of my own slightly off-kilter brand of kooky. I’m sorry because I want to be slower to anger. I want to be a little less concerned with saving reusable things […]
Down to Earth  When I hear someone described as “down to earth,” I think about someone who is real, open, relaxed, welcoming, easy going, probably extroverted, and usually funny. Affable, approachable, relatable, and trustworthy. Not to say that “down to earth” people don’t have bad days or can’t also be introverted, of course. But it does […]
On the Road…Again? Introducing my 6-year-old to Peter, Paul, and Mary has been entertaining. Nothing like a Gen X mom and her Gen Alpha kid rolling up to the school drop-off zone while belting out “If I Had a Hammer.” The Millennial teachers seem a little bemused by it. The one older gym teacher who helps […]
What’s in Your Closet? The beginning of the new year is a great time to take stock of everything. I have been busily thinning out the clothes in my closet and making a donation pile of things I don’t need to keep anymore. Doing this has brought up so many memories of people I used to […]
Honing Your New Year’s Wishlist At the ripe old age of 24, I found myself freshly divorced from my high school sweetheart and knee deep in a master’s degree that only made sense if I was still married to him. See, he was supposed to inherit the family farm and the farm was close to a […]
Permission to Pivot At the ripe old age of 24, I found myself freshly divorced from my high school sweetheart and knee deep in a master’s degree that only made sense if I was still married to him. See, he was supposed to inherit the family farm and the farm was close to a major university. […]
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