More Farm Bathing, this time, in South Carolina!

‘Twas the day before the Monday of winter break in White Plains, NY and nary a plan was in sight. As someone who grew up in sunny California, the notion of a winter break is not ingrained in my psyche; HOWEVER, we have two kids, ages 7 and 8, and the weather was pretty frigid. The promise of a steady diet of “No more screen time or else!!!” or, in reality, “How about another season of Bunk’d?” for a week, put some fire under my butt to figure something out.  So I hit Airbnb in search of warmth of any [...]

By |2022-08-30T12:15:38-04:00August 29th, 2022|

What’s your Bob?

I cut my own hair. Many people cut their own hair, even before Covid mobilized everyone’s inner hairdresser. But there’s more. Over the past few years, I was having a particularly hard time with aging. I was approaching 50. I had been fortunate enough for most of my adult life to never be consumed by aging, even when I got pregnant at 41 and was referred to as a geriatric pregnancy. I realize now that I never had an issue with it because I looked very young. Dang that is shallow. I had trimmed my own bangs for many years. [...]

By |2022-08-15T17:30:52-04:00August 15th, 2022|

Appropriation or Celebration?

I hate labels, but if you force my hand, I would say that I am a liberal. There is no “but.” I really dig those human rights, equality and social justice. I am not a fan of bad people, which isn’t to say that non-liberals are bad people. I know a few handfuls? There are also some really bad liberals out there. We are experiencing societal IBS, and just like IBS, we are treating it with all the wrong stuff.  The irony of ironies is that, I, of all people, would be writing this, given that I have spent most [...]

By |2022-06-29T10:38:17-04:00October 29th, 2021|

Farm Bathing in Vermont

In Japan, they have something called forest bathing or shinrin-yoku. It is the act of making contact with and taking in the atmosphere of the forest, not just walking through the forest. This is why I am calling my family’s recent “glamping” trip on a farm in Vermont “Farm Bathing.” I immersed myself in the land, gave my mind, body, and spirit to many mosquitoes, and may have taken the lives of several tiny moths up the nose. Why am I taking the time to write about Farm Bathing when I spent a good portion of the 3.5 days donating [...]

By |2022-06-29T10:47:57-04:00September 22nd, 2021|

Dear Kids, Trump was kinda my fault and that’s why I must make peace with this shit show.

I don’t know about you, but ever since Donald Trump entered the presidential race in the first place and then proceeded to “win” said race, I have not been a well woman. Fast forward to the last few months, and I can tell you that I have not experienced this much continual anxiety, anger and sadness since... I can’t remember - and I had a weird childhood. Every day, I wake up with a heaviness in my heart, and I rack my brain for how anyone can possibly give this person another four years. I won’t recite the litany of [...]

By |2020-10-29T16:07:32-04:00October 29th, 2020|