For the next time I’m mad: my enemies have succeeded. My waistband is suffering!
Category: Happy
Peasant Travel
Delta Basic Economy is dead to me. I don’t mind flying what I have dubbed a peasant airline: Frontier, Allegiant, one of the ones I haven’t tried yet like Avelo or Breeze … if they fly out of the south portable in Austin, I’m down. [Exception: Spirit. Nope. Never have I ever been so uncomfortable…
2024: Peace
Last year—and I had to look this up, what word I chose last year—the word I chose was L O V E. And yes, I had fallen in love, with both of my boys, but looking back I am struck by how much LOVE I received, gave, and was surrounded by in 2023. I mean!!…
23 days of feel good friyay | 102823
Hitting publish before noon on Saturday calling it Friday 😉 Whoops, didn’t realize I hadn’t posted in 22 days. I was in DC for most of last week; it’s hard to articulate how I love Capitol Hill in DC. Over the 16 years one of my besties has lived there, I’ve gone for extended trips…
Surprise Holiday Weekend | Feel Good Friday 052623
On holiday weekends when I haven’t planned a party, I often forget it’s a holiday. This is a blessing—who doesn’t want a surprise long weekend?! This one is much-needed; a brief respite before we’re off to Oregon for two whirlwind weeks of work, wine, and my bestest friends in the whole wide world. Once I…
Consume aaaaall, or, at least some of The Media
Leaving aside commentary on mainstream media which I can no longer defend despite having been part of the institution—in magazines and startup websites, at least—let’s focus on what, ahem, independent* media I have been consuming as a Xennial (they’re not really talking about us anymore, are they? sigh, loss of special snowflake identity). Top 5…
Feel Good Saturday Morning 012823
Day to day, it’s relatively easy to be an executive, at least a new one in the environment I am in. I am decisive and opinionated; my ideas about how we should be doing things are fresh and generally well-received, especially when I communicate them well (read: POWERPOINTS FOR DAYS). And still! I’m younger, more…
Bob
This goofy boy stole my heart on Dec 7, or maybe Dec 6 when I saw his profile online. It was another 10 days before I was allowed to foster this “behavioral issue” dog, and another 9 after that before we sent the “we will adopt him please” email. Today, January 3, 2023, is the…
holidaze | last feel good friday 123022
ah, the magic, magic holidays. so much to be grateful for around the season, be it my super amazing family with its uncomplicated relationships, my own magical uncomplicated relationship approaching its one-year(!) mark, the new addition to our lil fam with his own goofy, needy, perfect magic, or my super-fun-challenging new job with its super-fun-challenging…
SUAVE MARI MAGNO
“It is a delightful thing, while the great sea rages, to watch from the land another struggling with the waves: not because this is in itself a delight; yet it is a delight to watch calamities from which you feel yourself safe. So to look on a battle from some safe point of view. But nothing is more delightful than, from some serene stronghold of knowledge, to look down upon the wanderings and errors of other men, and their efforts after mere wealth and power, rather than knowledge and a quiet mind.” The first words of the opening of the second book of the Latin poet Lucretius, De Rerum Nalura. We found these words on the wall of a cantina called Tropico 56 in Merida, Mexico, where the driver we hired for the day on the recommendation of a man we met outside of a bathroom who said I look like I spoke English used to be the manager, en…