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“It feels like an episode of The Twilight Zone,” is what the text message from my best friend read this morning. And that summed it up. I feel a mixture of emotions, but mainly anxiety, which is nothing new to me, though greatly intensified in times like these. Yesterday when I went to pickup the…
Over the course of the last year, my relationship with anxiety has shifted dramatically. For the most part, my anxiety is no longer running the show. I am so aware of it and I have made so much peace with it. I understand that it is a part of who I am. I understand why…
A couples of weeks ago, I attended a culinary wreath-making workshop at one of my favorite local farms, Pennings. You can check out some of my earlier posts from our Pennings visits here and here; and a trip to the Pennings Orchard when Roman was just a little baby, here. As you can tell, it’s…
Loss changed me in very profound ways I learned about the depths of sadness and the brutality of loss. But I also learned that when life sucks you under–you can kick against the bottom, break the surface, and breathe again. –Sheryl Sandberg The other day I was scrolling through Facebook, and I stumbled upon this…
Happy Monday, friends. I hope that you had a beautiful weekend. It is cold, dark, and rainy outside my window right now, just the way a November morning should be. Before I start this post, I want to say thank you to each of you who signed up for my newsletter last week. I was…
Dear Friends, Happy Solstice. Summer Solstice, also known as midsummer, occurs when the earth’s rotational axis on its northern hemisphere, is most inclined toward the sun. The summer solstice is the longest day of the year, when we get more sunlight than we do on any other day of the year. I have long celebrated…
The past three weeks of my life have been good. I am healthier and happier than I’ve been in a very long time. But rewind to the twelve months that came before this, and it was a completely different story. A year ago, my life took a difficult & unexpected — but necessary — turn.…
Disclaimer: I’ve been working on this post for a week. I’ve had a few bursts of inspiration, but there’s also been a lot of “dead air.” As has been the case every time I’ve tried to write for the past three-to-four years, it starts to come… but then it stops. And now, it’s 7:00 pm…
let it go let it leave let it happen nothing in this world was promised or belonged to you anyway all you own is yourself — rupi kaur We all struggle with something. Certainly there isn’t a soul among us who has it all figured out. For me, the thing that I’ve struggled with the…