My life gets messy.  If you’ve been getting my weekly missive for a while, you already know this. Parenting is not for sissies. Neither is being in business. Neither is living inside my own crazy head. I try to show you the truth about my life, the messes and also the glory. Because here’s […]

  I’m kicking off something free and fantastic today– ten days of behind-the-scenes videos. In today’s kickoff video you’ll see me on the beach wearing no makeup and sporting a brand new zit. Normally I’d smear on some concealer for your viewing pleasure, but there’s a method to my masochism: my buddy Amy Pearson and I […]

Greetings from the Oregon coast, where I’m spending the summer. Here’s what people ask: Ohhh, do you have a new boyfriend? No. So is it your parents’ house?  No. Are you housesitting for rich friends? No. It’s very simple.  I rented this house for six weeks.  ME. Four of those weeks, my parents are here […]

  7 years ago, I birthed my baby bird at 5 in the morning, and understandably slept most of the next day. That evening, as the cool evening descended over Tokyo, I took my tiny bundle of stardust breathlessly in my arms and stepped outside for the first time as a mother. “This is the […]

You’re not going to believe this, but this is a story about a toilet seat. When I moved into my sweet little Portland apartment two years ago, one of the only things wrong with it (aside from its square footage, or lack thereof) was the toilet seat lid. Reader, it was stained. I tried all […]