It’s been a glorious two weeks. We’ve had puking, and presents, and turkey.  We’ve had confetti and tears and balloons.  Tantrums, stars, stories, and snowflakes.  Also headaches and airplanes and orgasms and big feelings and laughter and that thing where you teeter between snorting with maniacal laughter or falling down to your knees with sobs and you can’t decide […]

At this moment when all is shiny and new, when we’re supposed to be so resolute and resolved and evolving, maybe you’re feeling a bit bleary.  A tiny bit defeated, even.  Maybe you’re looking around at scraps of tinsel and piles of dishes and wondering if you got all the shards of glass out of the […]

A few months ago, I got a mysterious package in the mail. I opened it up to find this little gold notebook, every page filled with beautiful cursive handwriting. As I turned page after page, I realized that I was holding a treasure in my hands. It was a 33-day journal of a dear woman’s walk […]

If you ever want to hear an interesting conversation, you should ask people on Facebook about laundry. Here’s how it happened: my girlfriend and I were talking about kids and pajamas. She was horrified to learn that I think PJs need only be washed once a week. And I was appalled that she wants to […]

It’s started, you guys.  Can you feel it?  The holiday swirl. We’ve tipped past Thanksgiving, and the world will lose its mind today and spend ALL the monies in a shopping frenzy. It’s like we’ve been teetering on the edge of a big towering cliff and this is the exact moment where most of us tip […]