So I was SUPPOSED to be writing this blog post from the Feathered Pipe Ranch, a retreat center located in the heart of the Montana Rockies. For months I have been planning and prepping for this trip – a yoga teacher training with an awesome organization called Live Love Teach. I was scheduled to leave on [...]
We survived Emma’s first week of kindergarten. In the words of Willie Nelson, “It’s been some rough and rocky travelin’ but I’m finally standin’ upright on the ground.” As a newbie parent to the whole school gig, I am open to helpful tips….until they no longer feel helpful. Everywhere you turn you get accosted with [...]
I am a yoga teacher. Hearing this, you may think, “Oh, she must be so calm, so centered, so…..Zen. Sadly, this is not the case. Some people may go so far as to call me “uptight” or “clenched.” Despite the doubts of these haters well-meaning critics, I strive to achieve inner peace…someday. Although on the [...]
I pretty much live under a rock. I don’t watch the news because it gives me nightmares. We get the newspaper but rarely read it, because ignorance is bliss Phil typically runs over it with the car first thing in the morning. I rarely watch TV, because turning the damn thing on is as about [...]
So when I had my colon removed in April, my surgeon said the recovery would take six months. So I did what any masochistic ambitious person would do: I cut it in half. Three months, I said. Three months for healing, and not a day more. In three months I would be good as new, back to [...]
To recap, last week I announced my self-elected challenge of tackling something scary in the spirit of living life boldly and courageously. A chance to look fear in the face, to test my limits, to venture into the dark cave of the unknown and emerge heroically on the other side….my date with destiny….my date with pizza. [...]
There’s nothing like watching kids at the beach to remind you of what it means to be truly alive. For one week I witnessed Emma and Phoebe become totally immersed in the world of sand and surf. No (Ok, limited) TV, no computer games, no God-awful plastic toys that require four C batteries in order [...]
This is a picture of our car packed for vacation. And oh, is it packed. I am not exactly sure what we will be doing that requires this much krap. But rest assured (as my friend Molly pointed out) we will be well hydrated. Or drunk driving on a Disney Princess scooter. The sound of [...]
Phil has always been the romantic one in our relationship. Throughout our long distance courtship he would often surprise me with love letters, daisies, or a mixed CD. The first time I drove from New Jersey to PA for the weekend, I arrived to a picnic spread of wine, cheese, almonds and strawberries (a lovely [...]
Road Trip. Two words synonymous with summer. Pre-parenthood, a road trip meant freedom. If I close my eyes I can feel my hair whipping across my face as we drive with all the windows down, headed down the shore or to a concert, armed with a cooler of beer and some Cool Ranch Doritoes. Laughing, [...]
