The Blog

Here’s where I share thoughts on the work of moving toward our biggest lives and baddest selves.

The Wisdom, the Flex, and the Food

Yesterday, Theresa and I spent a handful of hours cooking together. She prepped salad fixings and veggies to dip in hummus; I roasted off some other veggies, made the hummus, and threw together a batch of soup to join the one already in the freezer for quick, easy...

Schedule like Gumby

Most weeks, I talk with people who are drunk on the flexibility of self-employment. It’s a type of intoxication that I know well; hell, it’s an intoxication I shaped my early professional life around. Going to the grocery store in the middle of a weekday is, to me,...

Resolve to Re-Start

Babe Ruth had a batting average of .342. This is a very good batting average, well above average in baseball. This very good batting average is essentially saying that Babe Ruth hit (without fouling) roughly one third of the balls pitched to him. One third. 1/3. Which...

Gift Budgets and the Pain of Uncertainty

Last week, I messaged Theresa from the aisles of a store: “How much trouble will I be in if I go a little over our gift budget?” On this, our third holiday season together, Theresa and I set a $50 gift budget based on the idea that we both have what we need and much...

When Netflix Nurtures and When It Numbs

I cancelled dinner with friends on Saturday. I spent the morning feeling gross in a way that I’m pretty sure had to do with a combo of sinus pressure and nasal drip and then finally decided to send the text early afternoon with my apologies. I asked Theresa to join me...

Hubba-hubba, Gratitude – Lookin’ Good!

I knew a woman who did all the gratitude practices – the journals and songs and dinnertime rituals with the kids and more – who seemed basically miserable to me. I spent a good bit of time mulling over that paradox: How can a person so intentional in her...

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