Well. Guess what? The party crasher showed up on Saturday, day 70. If you don't know what I’m talking about, you're fortunate. If you're fortunate and curious, please refer to my last post. This is what manifesting is like - you have to be careful so as to not manifest some shit you don't want. Andrea and I spent Thanksgiving on the “northern neck” of Virginia, which is where is the part of Virginia where our cottage is located. We did our grocery shopping in Richmond and the

Another post, heaping with vulnerability and real talk coming up. Turn back now if you’re afraid…. Because the first thing we are going to discuss is my period. It’s been 69 days since that asshole showed up - shattering my previous record of 51 days. I’m 51 and 51 is the average age of menopause in the US. I long to be average when it comes to menopause. I’m sick of this shit. Seriously. FORTY years of this is enough. Every time I go to the bathroom, I fear this asshole will

I haven’t been writing much - not here, online. I’ve been taking information in - processing it, learning, integrating. I bought this journal… My fiftieth year was a ride. It was much like the time back in 2016 when Andrea and I went to the Blue Hill Fair in Maine. I had bought tickets for the rides and got on the Tilt-a-Whirl, where I got my gondola spinning faster and faster. There was nothing to do but surrender to the ride and its dizzying pace. At last, the ride slowed,

Last Tuesday, I began my pilgrimage to Kripalu in western Massachusetts. I drove to DC and spent the night there to catch my non-stop...

This morning, a knock at the cottage door awoke us. Andrea is, and always has been, better at rousing from sleep so she sprung from bed,...

Recently, I shared on social media that I am enrolled in a 4-month, trauma-informed Breathwork certification program with Breath of Gold ...

The first week of May, I spotted this post on Facebook... I hadn't run in a long while, but I’d been thinking of running for weeks. Of...

Yesterday, in my personal email, I received an email from a place that recruits for private equity firms. They had a CEO job and my first...

Sometimes, when I’m slogging my way uphill through shit, I remind myself that thousands - probably millions - of people before me have...

This fit. January began innocuously enough - a pickleball lesson. Then a trip to Florida to visit my former CEO and his wife. Both the...

Each year, I choose a word of the year to focus on. It’s my intention for the year. I order a bracelet from the website My Intent and...

This morning, I was thinking that it was Toyota who promised a “December to Remember” - but it was Lexus. So I’m not sure how memorable...

“He died.” I say to Andrea as the northern neck whirs past the windows of the Jeep. “He did?” Andrea said - more a statement, than a...

As I crawled into bed last night, I said, “December’s been interesting.” “Oh - is that what we’re calling it?” Andrea asked. It was...

Andrea and I are on a vacation that our past selves booked in July 2023. Our past selves must have known our present selves would need...

This year, I’ve been part of a women’s group led by Catherine Andrews. I’m not entirely sure how I came across Catherine. What I do know,...

Approximately 2 weeks ago, the heaviness descended and, although I didn’t want to admit it, I knew. So I wasn’t even surprised as the...

We spent much of today cleaning our house. I was wondering how it got so bad and the simple answer is neglect. We’ve spent time working...

There are times I feel a sense of anxiety - foreboding. Then, usually something awful happens and I feel awful about the awful, but I...

Every time I think I’m going to graduate myself from therapy, life life’s and I think, “Well. Maybe now isn’t the time.” But really -...