As sat on the bus drinking my coffee, in freezing cold Canada, I was desperately looked around for a box of tissues. It seems all the traveling, time changes, and new schedules has resulted in a head cold. Having a cold on a tour is the absolute worst. There is no sleeping in because you ...
Days off are meant for sleeping in, shaving your legs, spending some time alone, and pretty food. I wandered out of my hotel in Sydney, away from the tourist mob that was Darling Harbour in favor of a tiny cafe on a noise side street that had tables outside, gold silverware and coffee in ...
I wasn’t going to post about my very very long flight from Los Angeles to Sydney in fairness to everyone else who was flying the same route, but to be honest – I don’t know how I couldn’t. You see I was flying First Class from Nashville to Perth on three flights. The first flight was ...
I’m bringing my little blog back from the Dead, resurrecting her for a specific purpose. _________________ Here I am sitting in my seat on this plane and I have two more flights after this Nashville to LA flight. I have Bob Woodward’s book open on my lap, but I can’t stop playing Woody, a highly ...
So, yesterday I started a 40-day detox. Initially my goal, I’m not gonna lie, was to lose a few pounds, but as I was preparing last week, I decided I was going to treat these 40 days as more of a reboot for not only my body but for my mind as well. Surprisingly yesterday ...
Let me paint a picture for you. Yesterday Nashville got its first “snow storm” of the year, it went from 65 degrees to 23 degrees in just 24 hours. The icy winter day turned into an ice and snow filled night. It was windy and cold. I was getting ready for bed, and the ...
I know Instagram has your most liked nine pictures of 2017, they will put them all together so you can remember the year, post them, and share them with everyone. Heck, I even did it, but I thought I could come up with better pictures than Instagram for 2017. 2017 brought me to so ...
As I sat all alone in the airport hotel waiting for my breakfast, I had some time to reflect on the last three months. When my husband and I talked about this job, I was trying hard to convince him it would be fun. He wanted to stay home, and I wanted to go out ...
As I sat in a cold production office somewhere in Canada, I realized it had been awhile since we’ve sat and had coffee. I looked back at my previous “If We Were Having Coffee – Part Two” and realized it had been almost six months. So much has changed in that six months so I ...
When you are a parent and you are raising those small children, usually the first question you ask yourself is, “when am I ever going to sleep again”. The second question usually is, “I hope they grow up to be good, kind adults”. Well, at least that was my thought process. I am very proud ...
As I sat in the Production office of the arena in Loveland, CO I realized so much has happened since my last post. I sat at the table with my cup of coffee and the smell of a lingering rodeo, one event came to mind loud and clear. It happened in Pittsburgh, PA and I ...
Some of you may not be aware of what I’ve been doing since the middle of September aside from not writing, so I’ll bring you up to speed. I have been touring the US and parts of Canada with a kids theater show. It’s exhausting. It’s fun. It’s pushed me so far outside of my ...
I know it has been a really long time since I’ve actually put words down on paper, but in all fairness, I’ve been working. I’ve been out on the road since September 10th, and I’ve been working so hard that I’ve actually lost 15 pounds. So, the fact that I haven’t written anything since August ...
I woke up this morning completely fine. I laid in bed and thought about some weird dreams I had last night, but mentally I was fine. I picked up my phone, opened Facebook and started to go to “on this day,” and just like that, I wasn’t so fine. I had been a little surprised ...
Today I was going to finish all the characters to my book, and I needed to get out of my apartment. So, I threw on a pair of jeans, an old Rolling Stones tee-shirt, my black chucks, grabbed my laptop, and headed to my favorite coffee shop in town. Parking was crazy, but that isn’t ...
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 ...
