Running Uphill...
I've been running the bridges on Key Biscayne with the girls lately. I initially thought they would just sit in the stroller and be miserable the whole time, but they actually love it. Fifi spends...
View ArticleAiring My Clean Laundry...
I went outside to the shared washer and dryer in my apartment building to get my clothes and found all of them painstakingly folded in my basket, with the single dress hung over the side so it...
View ArticleColoring in the lines... or not.
Fifi ran to me this morning with a picture she had just finished coloring to put on the wall."Isn't my picture amazing!!! And just a little bit of scribble scrabble. Right, Mom?" She said."Yeah but...
View ArticleA Guide to Surviving Life, Courtesy of Florence + the Machine...
It's an insanely bizarre week for me. Been praying a lot. Reading my scriptures. Relying on my Heavenly Father. And listening to Florence + the Machine: Live at Royal Albert Hall. It's amazing...
View ArticleMy Knight in Shining Armor...
When I filed for divorce, I remember being on my knees, talking to my Heavenly Father in bewilderment, wondering how I was going to survive this. This situation, this life, with two small babies and...
View ArticleMy History of Violence... #YesAllWomen
I started writing this blog because despite being completely freaked out about being alone and a single mother, I knew that to everyone else I looked like I had it relatively together. People would...
View ArticleI Stand With Kate Kelly...
I have spent much of the past two years trying to become a whole person and to make my way out of the small but remarkably secure box in which I'd awakened one day and found myself. I remember my...
View ArticleAfter All, Here We Are, Alive...
I, like everyone else, have been contemplating the passing of Robin Williams. I am especially struck by the juxtaposition of comedy and art to the darkness of depression and life-ending...
View ArticleBikram Yoga and My Big, Bad Ego...
So I've been doing the Bikram yoga thing off and on for 10 years now. (I love how I'm saying that so casually; I walked out of the studio the other day and encountered a guy on the street who made the...
View ArticleMy Top 5 Tips for the Newly Divorced Woman...
I was standing outside of school waiting to pick up Kay the other day, when I ran into a mom I hadn't seen in a while and actually didn't know very well. She asked me about my Thanksgiving plans...
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