An Introvert’s Step-by-Step Guide to Her 40-th Birthday Party Step 1: Get it Straight. By birthday party, an introvert means being alone. That is the only way she authentically parties. By introvert, a girl could…
Browsing Category philosophy
The gene of being.
(Thank you @Susie for the prompt.) Riva, dear Riva, Sweet, fierce, gorgeous heart and girl of 20-months of life. Can you feel our faces following yours? Your mama-moon and father-sun faces orbiting your every step,…
a shimmering sand canvas
Sister wives, Yep, I’m going to steal that apt title right hear and now. As what we have in common seems, pound for pound, more than a man, and at least as strong as a…
ten reasons to do a family gap year “trial lap”
(In case you needed any?) For those that don’t know, I’m currently on work sabbatical on the big island of Hawaii dong what I have coined our family gap year trial lap. The idea was…
reads: books that make me feel human (and more)
Category: Makes You Feel Human The Sun Magazine. If you consider yourself any kind of reader or writer – you MUST, must, must order The Sun Magazine. A monthly edition of advertisement-free and DELICIOUS photography,…
The Inheritance of Travel (in response to the prompt: How did you get here?)
There are stories in my body that I could tell: Of the hip sway I found in the lead of a grey-haired woman with a sign on her Antigua door that read, “salsa lessons.” Of…
incubation
How to hatch an inspiration. Sit on it, but notice it flaring up every time you go for a walk in the woods. Note that you hike faster and arrive sooner. Try to write…
citizen of La La
I think I was ten years-old the first time I was accused of living in “La La Land” (by an impressionable 7th grade teacher). When I was a teenager, my parents (in an unfortunate turn…
life asanas
BY ALL APPEARANCES, my backpack is stiff with stagnancy. But my absence belies. For all the spiritual journeys and cross-road training I imagined myself on in my 20’s – I now get that it’s all training-wheels….