How did you end up there, you may ask? How exactly did I end up sitting at a table in what used to be my sweet little bakery? The little 1000 square feet where I poured every inch of my soul. The little 1000 square feet that I have avoided for three years. The little ...
My day usually starts with good intentions, and then something shiny crosses my path, and I’m distracted in a flash. Monday of this week, while at Orange Theory Fitness, I felt something “snap” in my hipish area. I just ignored it and crushed the rest of the class, but by the time the short ...
My little blog is soon to be celebrating its third birthday, and I took a minute to look back at all my posts. Way back to the very first post on September 2, 2014, titled “Day 2 of Unemployment and Self Realization”. I went back and read the post, it wasn’t very good, but it ...
The year was 1991. I was 24 years old and four months pregnant, but I wasn’t showing. I was three years into an abusive marriage, not physical, but mental abuse. I had been laid off from my previous job, and I needed this job. It was my first real job as a Paralegal. It ...
As usual, it has taken me a while to sit down and catch you up with my life. Last time we talked I was still working in New York City. Now that I’m home in Nashville and settled into my little life, I should fill you in. If we were having coffee I would ...
I worked as a Paralegal in a tiny law office in Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. It was a job that saved me in a lot of small ways. There were two Partners in that law firm, Dominick A. Lockwood and Janet Jackson and we were all like a family. One horrible morning, 15 years ago today, Dominick ...
So today was my second class at Orange Theory Fitness, which for the sake of time we will now refer to as OTF. I was feeling good about things this morning, I had a plan for this class, and I was going to kill it. Now to get something out of the way, I haven’t ...
It all started with my husband standing in front of me in our apartment announcing tomorrow he was going to quit sugar, carbs, and I believe there was one more thing, but quite honestly I don’t think I heard it, and if I did, I certainly don’t remember. You see usually I’m the one who ...
My husband doesn’t really drink. If we are out he will occasionally have a gin and tonic, but that is the rarity. I watch what I drink mostly because my father was an alcoholic, but will usually order a vodka tonic if we are eating out. Usually you won’t find alcohol in our house, with ...
As I sat on my balcony with a big cup of coffee in one of my oldest and most favorite mugs, on one of Nashville’s most perfect mornings, I looked out over the downtown and the amphitheater. The mug was from my single mom days, and it is an actual miracle that it has survived ...
As I stepped onto the pier, the air seemed cleaner, my head felt clearer somehow, and I sat on what felt like the edge of the world, I just took a deep breath. Things in my little corner of the world were moving along smoothly. We are here in Chicago for a couple of weeks ...
First, it was my 50 Coats for a 50th Birthday campaign. Then it was several couples that needed help with giving kids a better life by opening their homes and giving them a family. Most recently it is a kids hockey team trying to make it to Nationals from Washington state to Florida. Giving ...
While I’m on the road, one of the largest things I miss almost as much as I miss my chickens is my kitchen. There is only so much take-out you can eat, you can only be so creative with the microwave in your room, and there is just so much pizza, even I can ...
I have been in New York for roughly five months, and it took me just about all of it to head out to Long Island to see my Aunt and Uncle and as I sat on the train watching Long Island fade into the background, I couldn’t help but think about my father. I have ...
My biological father died today. I have been searching around this room trying to locate my feelings as if they were stashed under this pile of books on my desk. The truth is I don’t know how to feel, which in turn keeps me searching. I have only seen Jimmy three or four times since ...
It’s been a while since we’ve had coffee and I thought we could use some catching up. Now that I’m working in New York City I thought we could go to one of the cozy coffee spots in the West Village. You would be amazed that I could find my way there on the subway ...
If you know me well, you know that I use to be a single mom. A struggling single mom from the time my kids were three and four until they were about 13 and 14. Because fish sticks were cheaper in bulk, we ate a lot of them. Because Cheerios were also cheaper in ...
It was 10:45 am on Inauguration Eve, I was sitting on my couch all alone in Nashville, the confirmation hearings were playing in the background, and I looked up to see an airplane flying in the sky on the upper right-hand corner of my tv. He was headed to Washington, in a plane that ...
Courage and fear. Two words that go hand in hand and elicit the exact same response from me. My heart starts to race, I break out into a cold sweat, I have trouble breathing, and I can’t look people directly in the eye. That’s how I felt when I told the closest people to me ...
I heard a quote once from an older lady who was talking about how she wanted people to remember her when she was gone. She said this…She came, she cared, she left. I thought to myself that’s how I want people to remember me and it got me thinking about 2016, what kind of impact ...
I woke up this morning and checked Facebook like I do every morning. I had a newsfeed filled with Christmas trees, talk of grocery shopping for the big dinner, Latkes recipes and parents sitting on couches with little children in front of their Christmas trees drinking hot chocolate waiting on the big guy. Families are ...
So this February I turn 50. Part of me is really surprised that I’m fifty because in my head I feel about 30. But some mornings when I wake up and crawl out of bed, I’m shocked that I’m only 50, my body feels 100 with its aches and pains, and God forbid I have ...
When you come from a big family, there are bound to be fights. Aside from the usual “that’s mine” or “I didn’t say you could borrow that,” my siblings and I didn’t fight much growing up. We don’t even fight much now that we are adults, but when there is a large fight, it usually ...
As I sat in a Starbucks in Brooklyn, NY, I looked around. It was pouring outside, and it seems people have chosen to camp out there. The amount of people in that little Starbucks was overwhelming. There were people from different countries, there were tourists with their maps, there was what seemed to be very ...
