Just wanted to share my latest articles on The Huffington Post…
My 1 Hour and 48 Minute Morning Routine: Women’s magazines and websites publish countless articles telling us how to ensure a perfectly perfect start to the day. So helpful. I have read loads of these articles, and, over the years, I’ve inserted some of the more palatable tips into my routine. Some stick (make bed while in it; wear sunscreen). Some don’t (do four-part breathing exercises; set day’s intention). But I’ve never done them all. More…
Doing 108 Sun Salutations Quieted My Noisy Brain: I had recently become overcome, once again, by the ever-popular epidemic — Woman Feeling Overwhelmed. All the usual symptoms presented: noisy brain busy with this, busy with that, busy, busy, busy. In the past, when afflicted, I’ve found embarking on a perspective-changing experience to be a helpful palliative. So when a friend told me about a yoga fundraiser that involved doing 108 Sun Salutations, I was in. More…
20 Reasons Why Downton Abbey’s Mr. Carson Wouldn’t Last a Day in My House: 1. I don’t employ a lady’s maid. I clasp my own necklaces, unzip my own dresses, and do my own hair. 2. My husband doesn’t employ a valet. He puts on his own suits, shaves himself, and doesn’t own a suit brush. 3. I often enter the bottom level of my home. It’s called a basement and my kids play videogames there. This basement does not have a wine cellar, a scullery, or a little room where someone shines my husband’s shoes and darns my boys’ Nike Elites. More…
A Mom’s Thanksgiving Story of “Will” and “Grace”: Sometimes the word “thankful” is inadequate; yet a better, stronger, more perfect word does not exist to define feeling completely overwhelmed with gratitude. The story below, from several Thanksgivings ago, illustrates just that. My heart pounded as I beheld the Long Island Sound from the tiny slice of rocky shore. To an outsider, I looked like a stock photo mom, ruddy from the exercise and the cold, energized by the hike with my family. But the tears pooling in my eyes weren’t from the stinging wind. More…
I’ll Never Get Another Blowout (Yeah, Right): Tales From a Curly Girl: Recently there was an article in the New York Times about curly hair. I am always drawn to articles about curly hair, because, well, I have curly hair and if you have curly hair, then you know what I mean. Curly hair is not technically considered an affliction. Afflictions are really bad. They are not life-and-death situations but they can complicate your daily existence. So, curly hair girls will mostly agree that if afflictions are things that complicate your daily existence, then having curly hair is an affliction. Before you go all bonkers on me in the comments and start writing things about real afflictions and things like wars overseas and how can I write about curly hair being a problem when people are dying and I’m so insensitive, please realize that I know that having curly hair is not that big of a deal, and I understand its position on the hard-knocks totem pole. But you probably have straight hair. More…
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