This week felt like I was running a marathon on a treadmill with no finish line, just a relentless loop of emotional exhaustion, medical battles, and work deadlines tapping me on the shoulder like an impatient teacher. I had to fight really hard to get the medical care […]
Tell us about the last thing you got excited about. This is your reminder that joy doesn’t always look like the Instagram picture you had in mind. It doesn’t always come with confetti, a perfectly staged latte, or a soundtrack by Lizzo. Sometimes joy shows up like a […]
Carly Simon once sang about dreams turning into “clouds in my coffee.” I feel that deep in my bones. Because let’s be real: life is full of those “this was supposed to be great, but ehhh” moments. I’ve had the big-ticket letdowns including the bucket-list trip that somehow […]
There’s this old biblical phrase I stumbled on again: “never blew an uncertain trumpet.” Basically, it means someone always gave a clear call, never muddled or half-hearted. No room for confusion. Which got me thinking about how rare is that these days? Most of life seems to be […]
There’s something magical about watching my dogs operate as a pack. Not magical in the Disney-princess-singing-to-birds kind of way. It’s more like the “oh dear lord, the neighbors think we’ve lost it” kind of way. It usually starts with the middle one. He’s the ringleader. The union boss. […]
Sometimes you read a news story and think, “Surely this is the pitch for the next Marvel movie, right?” But no! This is just Tuesday in 2025. Here’s the scoop: down in South Carolina at a former nuclear weapons site (because of course), employees discovered a radioactive wasp […]
Was today typical? Some days are so quintessentially typical they loop right back around into chaos. Yesterday was one of those. A day that screamed, “You know better!” while I marched forward like a caffeine-fueled general on a self-imposed battlefield of calendar invites and step goals. Let’s start […]
Today, I’ve got nothing. No hot take. No quirky dog anecdote. No spiritual epiphany served with a side of sass and sarcasm. Just… a big swirling mental block wrapped in noise-canceling headphones. But here’s the twist: that mental block? That nothingness? It’s actually something. Something honest. Something real. […]
The other day, a praying mantis showed up on my porch. Just sitting there. Regal. Zen. Slightly judgy. You know the look. As if he had just stepped out of a tiny insect-sized yoga retreat and decided to pause at my doorstep to whisper, “You’ve got this… but […]
This past weekend, I fell into a documentary double feature that was less popcorn and more psychological ponderings. First, the freshly Emmy-nominated Martha Stewart documentary, and then “Billy Joel: And so it goes” (because let’s be honest, we’re all in the mood for a melody, and Billy must […]
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