I recently posted a picture of my body in legs up the wall pose with a sharpie heart drawn on my thighs (see the post here). The post was an open letter to a personal trainer I unfollowed on social media after she posted exercises you could perform to achieve a “thigh gap” (ugh, I […]
Orlando. Baton Rouge. Dallas. Iraq. Syria. The Gaza Strip. It seems that every day I read the news, I have another reason to feel disappointed in the human race. Another reason to despair that the world I’ll be leaving my daughter is a more dangerous, vicious place than the one she entered. And yet. The […]
Life is a one-time offer. Use it well. ~someone on Instagram Have you seen the movie The Bucket List? A bucket list details all this things you would like to accomplish before you “kick the bucket”. In the movie version, Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson star as two terminally ill strangers who get assigned to […]
If we want to move through the doorway of life, we need to set down the damn groceries already. ~Erin I have a game I play with myself. I like to see how many bags of groceries I can carry at once without dropping anything (in case you’re wondering, my record is 16). I honed […]
Accepting the world as imperfect, unfinished, and transient, and then going deeper and celebrating that reality, is something not unlike freedom. ~Richard Powell Izzie got a new Martin guitar for Christmas, a beautiful spruce acoustic with a full, rich sound. A few weeks ago at guitar practice, she yanked her guitar out of its case, knocking […]
Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night. ~Rainer Maria Rilke It happens every year. Just when we feel as if winter will never end, the sun shines and the skies turn that incredible blue reserved solely for Kentucky. […]
