What can I even say about this past year? It was Dickensian: the best of times, the worst of times. I originally wanted to write you a really satisfying, inspiring post looking back at this past year, giving you the highlights and lowlights and noting what went well and what was hard. You know, one […]

It’s a few days before Christmas, and whether you celebrate or not, it’s hard to escape it. I am one of those odd birds who actually adore Christmas, problematic appropriative scam that it is; I adore it so much in fact that I have 171 traditions that I enforce I MEAN CELEBRATE. One of the challenges of blending families is figuring […]

The other day I said to my husband Nick, “I feel like there’s a twinkle light in my heart that isn’t turned on.” He laughed at me for about ten minutes, and when he recovered, he asked me why. I didn’t have a good answer. We’re doing all the holiday things; the tree is up; […]

Sometimes I go to crazytown. IN MY OWN MIND. Yep, even though it’s all beautiful snow falling on (not) cedars over here. I’ve been to crazytown before….oh, you know, once or twice or twelve… and it happened again. First of all, I ran aground just trying to write you this missive. See, I couldn’t log […]

I have such exciting news. For one thing, I feel like myself again. Which is No Small Thing, and I tell you the whole messy story below. But for another thing, I JUST THIS MORNING opened registration for the EFBA CIRCLE!!! Swoon. Oh my heart. Ohhhhh it’s good, guys. It is going to change EVERYthing for the women who […]