Recently, I bought the book Life is a Verb by Patti Digh. In it are words of imagination, wisdom and wonderful exercises. A quote she wrote really affected me, and it has been at the forefront of my mind lately – with every decision, every response, every action or reaction. She wrote, “If I recall…
After a week’s vacation, I have a singular focus: selling books. In Florida, as we perused a Books-A-Million, I saw my book on the shelf. I quickly scooped it up from the self-help section and plopped it on our “favorite paperbacks” shelf. A little guerilla marketing never hurt anyone and perhaps someone will pick it…
Dialogue of an inner self-critic… (a compilation) I’m so bloated. God, I look disgusting. How can I look like that when I work so hard! I stare in the mirror, clothes removed, seconds from entering the steaming shower. I turn to the side, let my stomach billow out to its normal shape – 6 months…
This morning, as I dove into a stack of buckwheat carob pancakes, drizzled lightly in agave nectar with a steaming cup of coffee, I thought about my girlfriends. I have always been someone who fosters close, intimate relationships and would take that any day over hundreds of acquaintances. I am lucky enough to have several…
fulfill – bring to completion or reality; achieve or realize (something desired, promised or predicted) Sitting in Caffe Streets today, I marvel at the expensive coffee (it’s how much for two large coffees?) and sleek, minimal interior. Alex and I have decided to work in a different part of town today, in hopes of revving…
The apartment is quiet, except for the new Adele CD emanating from the iMac. Alex is out with his mother, doing business and running errands. Cardio has been completed, the first cool moments of this Monday spent outside walking to the gym. Breakfast has been made and consumed, oatmeal topped with blueberries, sunflower butter (a…
Life: The condition that distinguishes animals and plants from inorganic matter, including the capacity for growth, reproduction, functional activity, and continual change preceding death. If only what we experienced day in and day out was that basic. However, life is a cornucopia of thoughts, feelings, emotions, accomplishments, love, loss, sadness, anger, depression, euphoria, and pretty…
Men are the masters of the midlife crisis. Shiny cars, bimboesque (I realize this is not a real word) arm candy, affairs, dye jobs or hair transplants, extravagant vacations, unnatural tans, bad tattooes… the list goes on. Many a wife has stood back in silence and watched as their husband disappears into what one can…
We’ve all been there. You are carrying on in your relationship when you meet someone you are attracted to. Perhaps it’s a fleeting attraction – a projection of what you’re not getting in your current relationship. But, for whatever reason, you begin to crave this new person like a drug, thinking, pining, and retreating from…
A few days ago… In a hotel room, in the middle of Asheville, NC, I sit in the luxurious king-size bed and read a book. I eat takeout food from the best vegetarian restaurant I have ever had the pleasure of sinking my teeth into – The Laughing Seed. I look over at my husband,…
