Is there anything worse than feeling like what you’re doing doesn’t even MATTER? You knock yourself out to make your kids’ favorite meal, and they ask why they can’t have pizza. You keep slaving away at your To-Do list, but it just keeps getting longer. You put together an incredible presentation, but they only give you two […]

I’ll be honest– I had a hard time writing you a coherent missive today. I wrote three false starts to this Friday letter. My mind is a jumble of things: outrage, hope, disgust, the hyper-focus of a super-nerd-fact-finder trying to track down credible sources for a story. My friend Wendy calls this #ournationalnightmare, and it […]

I’ve always had a hard time with February. I believe it is a combination of genetics, Pisces, and poor planning by the Department of Holidays, who put all the good stuff BEFORE winter solstice and left us staring down a long bleak empty tunnel of nothing until spring comes in about 17 months. But this year’s […]

Darlings, we are not powerless. I can’t be there at the women’s march in D.C. tomorrow, but I’ll be marching in my heart. We might even march around the living room. It’s SO MUCH LESS than I want to do. It feels so small, so ridiculous, silly even– but then I remember something that spilled […]

Have you ever had a conversation that left you feeling like the smallest, stupidest, tiniest version of yourself? Where you felt raw and mortified and too embarrassed to stand up straight? Where you slunk away doubled up to hide for a few days and lick your wounds? I had one of those conversations a while […]