I’m in Paris. Bread, wine and cheese Paris. Cute bikes with baguettes in baskets, quaint music, Eiffel Tower Paris. Yes. THE Paris. I’m here because Husband is on a work trip and they said, “Bring your wife!” I’ve known about the trip for a month but didn’t make a big giddy announcement on Facebook or start […]
TGIF: A Love Letter to My Husband of One Year
by on December 27, 2013 40 Comments
Hi love, It’s that time of the year again. It’s time to take stock of the year that’s gone by and give myself a report card. My grades are based on how I fared in the following categories: a. Things I did. b. Things I did not do. c. Things I really wanted to do, […]
Breaking Blood: My Period and Other Misc. Joys of Being a Woman.
by on October 25, 2013 76 Comments
I got my first period in 10th grade. I was a fragile teenager with a faint mustache and widening hips. I had a fresh harvest of body hair and trembling water-balloons for a bosom. I was a unibrowed Ugly Betty with a heart full of big dreams. And then I “broke blood.” I’d been preparing […]
TGIF: The Miracle of Building a Well (And Feeling ALL THE THINGS)
by on September 27, 2013 34 Comments
There are very few things I’m proud of. 1. I can make a perfectly cooked egg sunny side up, without popping the yolk. 2. I know all the words to Shania Twain’s song, “That Don’t Impress Me Much.” (Yup. I see the irony there.) 3. I use self-deprecation as a strategic tool to make strangers […]
TGIF: Feast, Pray, Love
by on July 26, 2013 15 Comments
Have you ever just wanted to holler “freeze frame” in the middle of a meal? It’s the moment before you: carve the turkey (freeze frame); blow out the birthday cake candle (freeze frame); or pass around plates of still-warm peach pie (FOR THE LOVE, freeze fraaaame.) For. One. Fleeting. Moment. Life is luscious. Everyone […]
