The more fresh air I breathe, the more balanced I am.
The more I listen to the trees, my hand against the bark, the more I understand about being alive.
Years ago, someone asked, Do you feel you are of this earth or do you feel you are a visitor here?
I am a visitor.
Read MoreAround two and a half years ago, I stopped self-medicating and numbing myself with food.
This brought about a balance and clarity I had never before experienced.
I noticed however, that when I stopped using food as a substitute for pleasure and love, I started doing something else.
Every now and then, I went on a shopping spree.
Read MoreI turned another year older yesterday.
If we weren’t in a pandemic right now, I’d have thrown myself a vintage-style birthday party and encouraged you all to dress in 1940’s style.
As it was, we are in a pandemic and my birthday fell on a Monday and much of the country, including where I live, was under threat of a huge snow and ice storm.
I thought about encouraging you to dress vintage and do the party virtually…but it just didn’t feel right under the circumstances.
Read MoreIt’s back to school week and I’m thinking about the August issue of Seventeen Magazine.
When I was a preteen living in a small town, there were no Instagram influencers or Youtube tutorials; there was the magazine rack at the drug store where I would find, every fall, a giant double-thick issue of Seventeen.
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