Do you remember your first aspiration? I’m not sure if I came by goal-setting naturally…I actually think swimming eventually drilled it into my thick skull. But I remember wanting to win at an early age. Anything really. I wanted to go to the Olympics, though I had no idea what that meant. I wanted to …
We live in weird times. I watch period films and envy the simplicity of their lives…the reading rooms in homes actually used for reading. I’m grateful for medical advances and the fact that women are now encouraged to exercise, but I’m not exceedingly thankful for social media, online advertising, basically everything that snares us into …
My sister-in-law gifted me the beautiful (aesthetically and prose-wise) book “GraceLaced” by Ruth Chou Simons for my birthday. Ruth is a mama to six boys, the youngest of whom is 3. She is a talented watercolor artist and writer. And she’s a mom to – I’ll say it again – SIX BOYS. As I leaf …