Gaze into the stars… for there you will find… CONTINUED TURMOIL I think we can all agree that 2020 has not been the best. If it were a houseguest, we would have kicked him to the curb. If it were a movie, we’d walk out. A friend, we’d break up. You get the point.The moral […]

Journey to Allyship what is an ally As I dive back into regular content here on the blog, I’d like to ask, How are you?These past weeks have challenged our humanity–collectively and individually. We have all, hopefully, taken a deep look at what it is we are doing and not doing to make this world […]

Why Vocal Support Matters love your neighbor black lives matter Photo by LOGAN WEAVER on Unsplash I am not an expert on race relations. I am not a sociologist, an historian, a politician, an expert on law enforcement or crime. But I am someone working hard to become an ally of the black community. Why Vocal Support […]

Things White People Can Do To Promote Racial Justice courtney ahn quote Image via @courtneyahndesign There was never a doubt in my mind that I needed to address the death of George Floyd–and the overall racial inequities in our country, yes even in “this day and age”–on this blog, because let’s be real. While we all […]

luna sea alpaca farm florida Friends! Friends. How are you?? No, seriously. I just had this conversation with a friend yesterday; my anxiety is at a peak right now. It’s not all the time, but when it strikes, yikes. Apparently, I’m not alone. Just a quick note to say, if you’re out there feeling a little… […]

Something crazy happened. Just yesterday, I had my baby, and I turned around today… and she’s three.The pace at which motherhood speeds by never ceases to surprise me, even during my third go-round. And this weekend, as we celebrated S’s third birthday at the beach, it struck me again as I watched the kids run […]

First things first: Has anyone been experiencing changes to their sleep patterns since the quarantine/lockdown started? I was on the best cycle of early wake/early workout since last year, and as soon as this all hit, nada. I just can’t get out of bed before 7, and more often, 8:00. You know things are bad when […]

There is no way to fully understand just yet how we will all come out of this quarantine. Emotional events of this scale tend to impact us in ways we don’t immediately understand.There are a handful of things I’m already starting to realize (for one, that it turns out I am a raging homebody underneath […]

tips for switching careers jobs A long time ago (3.5 years), in another world, I was a television news anchor. If you’ve been hanging out with me here for a while, you know that. If you don’t, now you do! I worked my ass off to get that job–unpaid internships; part-time jobs with production companies […]

Driving anywhere feels like a wild luxury these days. You know what I mean, I know you do. I used to loathe the moment my ass hit the seat of my minivan for the fourteenth time in any given day. But now, as we anchor into our daily lives At Home and Nowhere Else, getting […]