On Saturday evening we had friends over for dinner. We ate my husband's special Chorizo Tacos (this man is incredible, I'm telling you!) and played some really fun games. There was laughter intermittent with deep discussion. It was all so normal, triggering moments of memory from the Great Before, while also feeling not normal at [...]
I hit the second half of February in solid migraine form. I was in bed, living in a heightened state of nausea. The following week my husband had his second dose of the Pfizer vaccine and he was down for the count for three blurred-together days. (his blur, not mine. I was clear headed, but [...]
As a classic self-doubter with added combo bonus of overthinking, when I set out to learn about liturgies, last month, I was unprepared. Initially, writing a liturgy was a bit of a challenge that came about in my Mastermind group. While the other women talked about the books they'd read and their own experience with [...]
I entered into my relationship with 2020, filled with hope. While I have felt the steady decline personally, each year since 2015, I resolved that THIS YEAR would be the difference. It has been different. It has made a difference. While the things I had vowed to see done this year were not exactly petty/shallow: [...]
Growing up a little white girl, among a see of hispanic children was both hard, and it wasn't. I mean, it WAS hard because I always felt like I didn't fit in. Adding to that the fact that my mother was a smoker and the kids at school always made it a point to acknowledge [...]
