When I hit my 40s, I felt like a whole new world opened up to me. There was a lot of license to do things differently, although I can’t exactly explain why. Some of it is just age and comfort in who you are as a person, and some is realizing you could be halfway through your life. So then …
The idea of kindness seems to be popular. However, I wonder when the fear of being kind became the norm. Has it always been like this? Is it post-pandemic? I think it’s a combination of things, frankly. If you’re unsure what I’m talking about, I’ll explain. Have you ever had something upsetting or tragic happen to you and feel completely …
Being alone with myself has always been something I’ve enjoyed, for the most part. In college, I was desperate to be with other living, breathing humans. After that, it completely changed and I realized my own company was not so bad. In fact, I loved it. Because I moved away to a new city post-college, I had a choice to …
Who else gets totally overwhelmed with all the chirping about ways to grow a new art business? While you could spread yourself thin, don’t. A few strategic ways to grow is going to save your sanity and keep you consistent. That way you see what actually works and what doesn’t, giving you a more narrow scope as to where your …
Alzheimer’s is a disease that I have no desire to discover. There is no cure, and the decline in brutal. While there are still many questions on how it’s caused, I’ve been reading materials from various credible organizations and listening to experts of what could cause it and how to reduce the risk of it. Some of these are simply …
At the end of December, I decided I wanted to cut out alcohol for a month. It’s been a tug-of-war internally for a while, so I decided to jump on the Dry January bandwagon. For me, it wasn’t about punishing myself from the stuff. I wanted it to be a discovery of my relationship to alcohol more than anything, although …
I’m not here to give you specific recipes, but I am an idea gal. Sometimes we just need a little brain jolt to help us think of different meals we can fix for ourselves or our families. It’s easy to get stuck in a rut, but if you’re going to be in a rut, I highly recommend this list of …
Toss the chocolate idea, unless your honey loves it that much. And certainly don’t take her out to dinner on the actual day – too much pressure and way too much of a cluster. Come home with lingerie and it’ll be used as fire kindling. If you’re anything like me, you want your partner to think outside of the box …
I’ve been married twice. The first time I got married, I had no idea how marriage worked. My first husband was Brazilian, living in Brazil, and he moved to the United States to be with me. We had a rocky relationship, and it only got more fraught as time went on. A couple of years in, we threw in the …
We love tossing the word failure around. It’s so easy to say we are a failure at our job, at a relationship, at parenting. Is it being a failure? Or are we all works in progress? My preference is the latter, because if I truly believed I was a failure because of all the things I “failed” at, my mental …
