I HAVE TO CONFESS. I re-read my 35 Before 35 List. It’s nice. It sounds exactly like me at 30. Or 32. Variations on the same theme: build a startup/side hustle/passion; meet some fitness/wellness goal; do more of a certain type of traveling; learn to cook or eat something; make some shit. At the beginning…
Judgmental Map of Austin
So stereotypical, and yet … so true. via judgmentalmaps.com // via a friend from Amsterdam! On the plus side, it’s nowhere near as offensive as the Judgmental Map of Orange County…
Happy Birthday Cha! | Feel Good Friday 113018
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO THIS GUY! Cha, you are the very definition of love—loving and beloved, thank you for being the best lil’ bro in the world! I am so excited for our next (door) adventure as neighbors! I’m incredibly grateful for an amazing family with the absolute best cousins and baby cousins in the whole…
Compliment or Insult: No New Friends Edition
I met a friend of a friend of a friend at a party. We exchanged hellos as part of a small group and went our separate ways as the party grew larger. Three hours later, we were chatting in a hallway, bonding over remote work, digital marketing, feminism, and other shared interests. “I don’t mean…
Do I Write about New Orleans or Thanksgiving? | Feel Good Friday 112318
Thanksgiving is the day for gratitude. I get to be with my awesome family for five days! I’m sure you’ll hear more about it next Friday in the weekly gratitude list / recap of allll the amazing things I have to be grateful for, so we’re just gonna move along to … Unexpected New Orleans…
Happy Birthday to the best Dad!
(This was supposed to post yesterday!! Travel is a bear) Let me tell this incredible man, role model, and jokester HAPPY BIRTHDAY! Happy birthday to the dad who builds benches with me, trims trees with me, excitedly pretends to be killing me with an extension cord after working in the yard, teaches me how to…
Shop Women-Led Wednesday
We may have a glut of faux-holidays around Thanksgiving, but how could I not write about Women-Led Wednesday? Combining women-led companies with online shopping, you know I love it. And besides, now is a great time to start following some instas and signing up for some mailing lists for some badass new companies so you…
Taking Care of Yourself | Feel Good Friday 111618
I’m on a plane to New Orleans, that I was supposed to be on yesterday. But I had hopped on a plane Monday for two meetings in 48 hours in OC, and when I got back to Austin just couldn’t get everything done in time to take off again. Though I agonized over the change…
Yoga Challenge | Feel Good Friday 110918
I’m doing BFree Yoga‘s Happy Body Happy Mind 21 Day Challenge, and it’s pretty lax—do some yoga, meditate, feel good, boom. But I wanted to do all 21 days of yoga in a row as part of it. Well, per yogic tradition, the universe has other plans. Great plans! Fun plans! But not yoga-every-day plans. So…
My Towel Saga
Towels are one of those items in which you don’t think about what you want until you have to really freakin’ figure out what you want and then you wonder: do I want soft towels? Light towels? Big towels? Small towels? Absorbent? Am I going to lounge in them? It’s exhausting. In my new fabulous…