I woke up this morning in the mountains, and happy. I wrote this post on Thursday intending to publish it on Friday, but alas! A Friday afternoon wander around Aspen followed by homemade crab leg dinner foiled those plans. Let us confess: on Tuesday of this week, I had an absolute breakdown. I felt rejected…
Tuesday was a great day. Last weekend was great. Moving the trip I had planned for this week to next week was great plan. This week was great. MY week was great. Lots of things happened in the world to make me frustrated with our government, country, and society (as defined by social mores). I…
The day after I published last year’s word, my world was turned upside down. Confidence? A painfully ironic word. But like all things do, this DID turn into a year of confidence, where I was tested well beyond my perceived limits and emerged stronger, happier, and more at peace with myself. Confidence indeed. As I…
Hard to believe Christmas is two days away … it should be a pretty low-key, relaxing holiday for me this year; I’m looking forward to it. Entertainment This twitter thread on a Muslim’s first Christmas has gone viral for good reason: hilarious and so true. WHY ARE ORNAMENTS SO EXPENSIVE?! Sacks and the City podcast…
To try to put into words what it feels like to be welcomed into a whole other family, as part of it, as if I was never not, is impossible. My brother, his fiancee, and I are a bit of a family unit already, and going to Rio and being welcomed into her family as…
2020 was hard for me in ways completely unrelated to the global pandemic we all faced. In fact, if anything the pandemic helped me—gave me space and time to process the traumas in my life that came with the first two months of 2020. The first trauma was a dramatic shift in my career; an…
I still hate cardio. But a couple of weeks ago, Robin spoke to me during a hellish tabata ride. Sometimes we dream big, but don’t give ourselves permission to win. I mean, damn. OK, self, we gotta give ourselves permission to WIN.
It’s that ridiculous time of year in Austin where you WANT it to be fall and it’s just not … you might get some cool mornings, but then we’re back up in the high 90s in the middle of the day. Nonetheless, I’m making pumpkin centerpieces to keep it fall in my house, while updating…
That thing you’re afraid of? ALREADY HAPPENED. It’s in the past, or you wouldn’t be scared of it. I pondered this for an entire yoga class. Think about it for a sec. Imagining the thing you fear makes it so. It already happened in your mind. And you survived it. You can survive anything. Really.…
Y’all, I think I forgot to mention my edger. I got an edger fo my birthday, marking two years in a row my parents have given me yard tools, and I could not be happier about it. This is an honest-to-god-edger, that rolls alongside the lawn and cuts deep. I love it. I love taking…