Living Chalant

A couple of months ago one of my dearest friends shared that she had gotten an agent for her book. We were slated to walk that day so on my way over, I popped into Harris Teeter to pick up some flowers to celebrate her amazing accomplishment. I got to the flower section to peruse …

Unspooling

The day I knew my marriage was over was the day I received a barrage of text messages from my now ex-husband infuriated that I had secretly hired a cleaning lady. I was sitting next to a colleague on a video meeting and she looked at my phone, after seeing my face crumple, and said …

Walk on the Ocean.

I am a very, very, very feeling person. Full stop. For a long time, I tried to make that part of myself disappear – like it was a bad habit that just needed the right tool / focus / willpower to solve this massively embarrassing problem. If I read enough books or took enough classes …

The Peril of Easy

We always wish for easy. For less busy work. For more time to focus. But what happens when we get it? One of my super powers is to make order out of chaos – weather that be keeping my family’s possessions in order (Mom – where’s my…) or planning out the details of a Disney …

Learning to Be.

Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end. Robin Sharma I am terrible at asking for what I need. True story. Some people call this imposter syndrome or over functioning or scarcity. I like to call it the mid life culmination of living as an empathic kid / teen …

Not Sorry.

I say sorry too often. Especially when I am uncomfortable. Or tired. Or anxious. I apologize for what I say, how I say it, if I hurt someone. If I saw someone’s body language shift. Apparently this is not uncommon. Rachel Hollis famously authored the book “Girl Stop Apologizing”. I have an actual necklace that …

Yeah I am!

Sunday morning I went to pick something up at a friend’s house. As I stopped by, my friend Katie and her oldest son were headed out to swimming lessons. On social media, she had mentioned how much he was loving his time in the pool. I said to her son, “Hey! I heard you are …

TACTICAL: Target Ask Amounts

I was an accidental fundraiser. Money made me, frankly, uncomfortable in any situation. But I found myself overseeing a sizable Class Agent program as a graduate assistant and realized fundraising was actually really interesting — and there was an art and science to this profession that I didn’t even know existed. Over time, I learned …