40 snuck up on me, in the sense that I just still don’t feel it. But! We’re celebrating big, first in Valle de Guadalupe, which is the perfect place for me to celebrate this milestone birthday, and back home too. But first, let’s grade my to-do list for this year. 40 Under 40 I have…
Category: Happy
I am the top chef now | Feel Good Friday 091624
This week has been BUSY. Birthdays to celebrate, friendships to enjoy, a fancy Kenyan + South African wine dinner to look forward to tonight. Full, happy, but busy. I am grateful for: >>> Written while streaming Post Malone’s new album F-1 Trillion which I am wholeheartedly obsessed with. I love him, I love the collabs,…
Love is … | Feel Good Friday 080924
Love is … … zip-tying a cucumber so you can pick the first one together Love is … Writing a postcard and hiding it in a stack of mail for her to find Love is … … salads in the drawer and tuna in the pantry. Love is … … fresh flowers, smoked chicken, and…
Let’s Return to the List | Feel Good Friday 053124
Happiest 40th birthday to my childhood best friend! I so loved celebrating you this weekend, and I can’t wait to see what your best decade yet looks like! So very grateful these past couple of weeks. A simple list:
My Enemies Have Succeeded
For the next time I’m mad: my enemies have succeeded. My waistband is suffering!
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…