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Terrible, Thanks for Asking + 11 Songs to Play at my Funeral
Are you ready for the whitest white girl thing I just did? I joined a 5-week long writing club, hosted by a podcast (more about the podcast at the end of this post!) called “Terrible, Thanks for Asking.” Stop rolling your eyes! It was my type of commitment – no rules, no deadlines. Each week…
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50 Mornings a Mother: October 10 – November 27, 2014
Turns out I’ve been writing this blog for quite some time, I just didn’t know it. Below is a previously unshared project I created right after Veda was born in 2014. I was really struggling with this whole mothering thing and running on ZERO SLEEP. I couldn’t share it then, it felt too personal. The background – having…
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Ugly Crying in an International Airport: My Approach to Work and Family
Here’s the deal: you might love your job, but your job does not love you. Not even a little bit. It doesn’t call to check you on you, it doesn’t send you Christmas cards, it doesn’t slip a Reese’s peanut cup under the door after you’ve had a bad day. Your job doesn’t care. The…
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The World Doesn’t Need Another White Girl’s Lifestyle Blog
Yet here were are… Listen, I’m just trying to find a new thing to create. I’m a lady with a couple kids, a real nice husband, a corporate job, a house. I drive a Subaru for crying out loud. We have high-class problems. Nothing here is going to blow your mind, it’s going to be…