Progress isn’t linear. This is the phrase that repeats in my head as I backslide. Some weeks I am crushing it at waking up and meditating first thing. For one whole week I was up at 6am. By Saturday of that week I fell off the wagon. Lately, I am back to rolling out of … Continue reading Progress Isn’t Linear
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Epiphanies
Lately, in my previously mentioned quest for clean, I’ve been having epiphanies. As I lay my head down at night to sleep ideas are bombarding me. “If I clean out x drawer I can move y things into it.” Or, “If I sort my closet to have cardigans grouped together, dresses grouped together, and so … Continue reading Epiphanies
Quest for Clean
I come from a family of neat freaks. My grandmother’s level of cleaning was beyond what normal people would ever do. The tales I heard of her, rigging up homemade scaffolding to balance precariously over the stairs to clean a window. Her daughters followed suit although my poor mother had four kids who were a … Continue reading Quest for Clean
Magic
I am convinced there is magic in female friendships. I’ve experienced it in my own life and I’ve been swept away by it in the following tv shows and movies: The Golden GirlsSex and the CityGirlsHarlemAnd Just Like ThatThe Bold TypeDesigning WomenGrace and FrankieFirefly LaneInsecureBig Little LiesWorkin’ MomsSweet MagnoliasWine CountryPOMS I share this list because … Continue reading Magic
Better
Things are slowly getting better. I’m moving more, not napping during the week. I’m reading again, I’m writing again. I’m finding balance between rest and productivity, whereas before I was all rest, yet never feeling rested. Today I watched a video from an immunologist at University of Michigan who thinks this is the year the … Continue reading Better
2022
The start of a new year generally brings hope but since 2020, hope seems futile. I was tremendously hopeful for 2020 and then it went down the crapper real fast. 2021, I hoped would be better. Vaccines were coming, clearly people would do the right thing and the world would get back on track. Well, … Continue reading 2022
Week One
Week one of the new year complete, and again, I am living through events I never thought I’d see (and never wanted to see) in my lifetime. Insurrectionists were storming the Capitol building in DC to stop democracy in action. A president who has spent most of the last four years on Twitter eerily silent … Continue reading Week One
2021
2021. The New Year I, and many, have been waiting desperately for. The dumpster fire year that was 2020 had its last moment. The clock struck midnight, and with it, I am choosing hope. While the changing of a calendar page or the stroke of midnight doesn’t make our problems vanish, it does feel like … Continue reading 2021
A Life Well Lived
This December, I’ll be turning 40 years old. I know that number throws a lot of people into a tailspin, but personally, it’s something I’m looking forward to. I feel like 40 is the year and decade I’ll take control of my life and craft it into something that truly suits me. That’s not to … Continue reading A Life Well Lived
Welcome to My World
Once upon a time, a long time ago, I had a blog. It was random and disorganized, which made me think it was somehow less than. I deleted it because I needed a clean slate.Well, I've realized I'm still random and disorganized but in the best possible way. I'm embracing myself for who I am, my … Continue reading Welcome to My World
Martinis and Meltdowns 