People are amazing. My best friend surprised me last week, driving in from out of town with the fixins for venison chili, a bottle of special pinot, and (what I thought was) the coup de grâce: a hilarious box of letters and pictures from our childhood through college, complete with countless mentions of boys we…
Y’all, I made a critical wrong choice. I KNOW as myself that I need sunshine and time outside. But when cedar is high and my allergies go insane, I chose to stay inside. Based on the amount of mind I lost on Tuesday night, that was the WRONG MOVE. I had worked a couple long…
Gray Malin is a destination photographer who loves the places I love—namely, Aspen and OC. His photos are a given in any Aspen home, and I’d love to bring the tradition into my own. His newest launch, Dogs of Aspen, might just be the ticket to me finally splurging on his work. I mean, I…
Whew how ’bout that vulnerability yesterday, huh? Yikes. Positive feedback though, and I’m glad I posted it, even if it elevated my anxiety level. Lattes à la dada … literally this is the greatest thing to come out of my achilles tear surgery. My father delivers a delicious raw milk latte to me every. single.…
TRR! That’s what it felt like when my achilles ripped. But TRR is also a new series on this blog documenting my recovery moving forward, not in the banal I-had-surgery-a-week-later way, but in the emotional, psychological, physical way all of us deal with trauma. I wrote a whole boring intro, but let’s focus on the…
Last year was incredible. It just might have been the most I’ve ever lived up to my word: Grace. I went through some shit, sure, and ended the year on a decidedly un-graceful note with an achilles rupture and subsequent surgery, but taken on the whole, I did a good job of giving myself grace,…
There were many ways I saw this year ending: me having broken in my badass new skis over Christmas in Park City, me booking a last-minute tip to Tahoe or Mammoth to capitalize on the insane 10-foot dumps of snow northern Cal has received, me taking a silly Taos-Santa Fe trip on a semi-PJ, even…
Books I have read since 12/26/21: Transcendent Kingdom – great exploration between science and religion; recommend it although I did not it as much as I loved her first novel Homegoing People We Meet on Vacation – a bit predictable but entertaining nonetheless First Comes Love – ditto but also interesting that both this and…
This week has been… miserable. But there is too so much to be grateful for ❤️ peep the story show and let’s talk about how we feel about the format… love? Hate? Occasionally ok?
My achilles. I’ve been staving off this particular injury since Dr. Bill wouldn’t let me play turf football five years ago in Newport, but when I met my awesome group of pickup football guys here, I just couldn’t help myself. I did massage, chiropractic, wrapping, acupuncture, icing, and all the things to prevent an achilles…