This past weekend, the French Open gave us more than just tennis. It gave us a gritty, sweaty, glorious masterclass in resilience. Both Coco Gauff and Carlos Alcaraz reminded us that it’s not how you start, but how you finish. And oh, did they finish. Alcaraz clawed his […]
This weekend, I watched the latest Mission: Impossible installment- The Final Reckoning (is it really the final one? Who knows anymore?). What I do know is that this franchise has lived a long life powered by Tom Cruise’s energy, charisma, and refusal to slow down. And, while this […]
The other night, I randomly dove into two very different shows. One called Four Seasons and the other Tuiskoms. Somehow, both ended up riding the same emotional wave with women, post-life hiccup, signing up for surfing lessons. Surfing? Not therapy. Not wine. Not screaming into a pillow. Surfing. […]
There are moments when the shadows of the past feel heavier than the steps I’m trying to take forward. Moments when the echoes of those who doubted, dismissed, or even hoped for my downfall whisper a little too loudly in my mind. But here’s the truth I know […]
There are some songs that feel less like music and more like an excavation — digging through layers of past hurt, survival, grit, and finally, fragile hope. Kesha’s “Praying” is one of those songs for me. It’s not just a melody; it’s a full body memory, a tremor […]
Resilience takes many forms, but few can say they’ve been swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. Yet, there was a guy—let’s call him the real-life Jonah—who recently did just that. He was diving, minding his own business, probably thinking about dinner or his to-do […]
Ernest Hemingway once said, “The hardest lesson I’ve had to learn as an adult is the relentless need to keep going, no matter how shattered I feel inside.” It’s the kind of quote that hits especially hard on a dreary January Sunday morning—the kind where you can almost […]
Twice this week, I heard Frank Sinatra’s “My Way.” And each time, without fail, I had to stop, sing, and half tear up. This song doesn’t just hit me—it cuts deep into my core. As a New Yorker, especially as a girl who grew up poor in the […]
So there I was, minding my own business, when a squadron of bees decided I was prime real estate. Not one, not two, but three stings. Arm, neck, leg – a trifecta of pain and puffiness. Now, I’m walking around looking like a bizarre version of the Michelin […]
Friedrich Nietzsche once wisely cautioned, “Beware that, when fighting monsters, you yourself do not become a monster… for when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.” As a lifelong fan of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, this quote resonates deeply. Buffy, like many of […]
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