This week we saw so much sadness. Our hearts broke right open, and we sent love to Boston and Venezuela and all the parts of the world where people are in agony. So this might seem trivial. And yet as my friend Sarah Seidelman so wisely wrote, “What can we do in the face of […]

Oh, life. Life is just fucking impossible. Tell me if you recognize this: You answered 847 emails today, but the 848th person is mad. You got the laundry sorted, washed, dried, and folded– but then someone spilled chocolate syrup into the laundry basket. You remembered 18,742 things about the crazy project, but you forgot one […]

As you read this, I will be holed up in quite a lovely hotel suite with some of my favorite women on the planet. These women chose to work with me for a full year, declaring that 2013 is the year where they work some serious magic. I love them so much. But today I […]

My heart is full.  Some of you may not know that I spent nearly two decades of my life in Japan– I went first as the child of missionaries, and then returned as an actress in my twenties.  In fact, I only left Tokyo two years ago, after the 2011 earthquake. It is almost exactly […]

I’m supposed to be packing right now for a trip to Tokyo. I’m going back for the first time in two years; I haven’t been back since I left with my daughter and a suitcase right after the big earthquake. It’s a huge journey across emotional territory. But that’s not really what I’m struggling with […]