People Aren’t Pictures.
My four-year-old daughter just schooled me on a puzzle. To be honest, I’m not spatially oriented at all and hate puzzles. That said, she gave me a funny look as she corrected me; putting...
My four-year-old daughter just schooled me on a puzzle. To be honest, I’m not spatially oriented at all and hate puzzles. That said, she gave me a funny look as she corrected me; putting...
A serious yogi is someone who practices yoga every single day, understands fully that practicing yoga is not usually done on a mat and who tries to always better herself (or himself, but, I’m...
Sitting with someone else’s pain is awful. It’s hard enough to sit with our own grief, much less that of someone we love, when there’s really nothing we can do or say. But that’s...
I realized that my life right now is like a ginormous game of Jenga. Let’s be clear—I don’t play Jenga. Still, I envision the way that the wooden pieces are set together in a...
Okay, maybe not over-rated. But the definition for romance, in my opinion, is usually all wrong. Romance looked completely different to me when I was 25 than it does now at 35. At 25,...
I have hearts scattered all over the world. One of my dearest hearts is in Sweden, another in Philadelphia, one in Connecticut and my own mirror-image half (my identical twin sister) in a different...
I can’t stand parenting advice. It’s pretty grandiose to think that we have the answers for all parents and kids out there because we’ve figured out a few key (or minor) parts. For one, kids...
I’m about to admit something extremely uncomfortable; something that I honestly barely admit to myself. I can sometimes have a victim mentality. Let me explain. I don’t see the world as black and white;...
If you haven’t ever read about love languages, you should. According to the book penned by author and relationship counselor Gary Chapman, The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate,...