Gentle reader, meet our long-awaited gardenia blossom. ❤️
Hustle culture is lying to you. Here’s how to set yourself free. Yesterday, I had a conversation with a new-old friend. She asked what I’m working on, and I found myself speaking my vision aloud for the first time. As I rambled through my dream, I noticed how right it felt. My heart shined, ablaze…
Apparently I’m a little stuck on baking. So stuck, in fact, that in one short week I have used up these kitchen staples: Flour Salt Chocolate Chips And before you say anything, chocolate chips *are too* a staple. I used them today when I decided to bake cookies. These cookies are my jam I’ve been…
I miss my mother. This morning, the feeling came through loud and clear in my journal, and to be honest, it kind of surprised me. We didn’t talk much when she was alive. Too often, I was caught up in my own stuff, unwilling to burden or be burdened. But there are times when all…
My kitty boy is basically the handsomest, and he knows it. Such a cutie Kemura Saisho Ototto (so named by my anime-obsessed teen) doesn’t come for pets very often. But when he does, look out, because he’s a purr box. Like our two dogs and our other cat, Capitano, Saisho came to us via Antietam…
You got the applause you craved, but it felt hollow. Here’s why. In one of my earliest memories, I’m four years old, standing barefoot on a grassy hill at some sort of summer camp. I don’t know the other kids. They don’t want to know me. And then it came, like a bolt from the…
A message for you to keep going I wrote this today. Or maybe it wrote me… I believe in my heart of hearts that I will always have enough. Can I say I am enough? That one’s tougher, but that’s where I need to get to. That’s an important part of my journey. I wonder what can…