What I’ve Lost
We all lose our parents, eventually. But I’ve discovered that the very ordinariness of it flies in the face of the actual experience. And describing that loss is almost as challenging as describing...
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Living in the Drift…
Drifting in the Adirondacks, drifting through life There’s a difference between being stuck in life and being in a drifting phase, not knowing necessarily what you’re doing next. (And sometimes even...
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Getting Grounded In Life: A Tale of Two Shoes
Shoes in my life: The Before and The After So this weekend I took an interesting—perhaps even bold—step toward whatever it is that might be coming next: I divested myself of a rather large quantity of...
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Statue of Limitations
A statue that represents my state of mind (and my hometown, too: Philadelphia). It’s been a wild and wandering year, jam-packed with days of… something. I mean, I know I was doing *something* most of...
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What Makes A Good Life?
The OECD Better Life Index ranks many attributes, including, shown here, Life Satisfaction. I stumbled across an unbelievable combination of informations today on the internets (Thank you, Twitter!),...
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Join Me In A ReTreat! (Capitalization Intentional)
work work work work work work work me work work I’m always looking for a way to have a little time to myself. And one of the truly bizarre truths of being a working mom is that business trips = time to...
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The Force Is With Me
Nowhere: SLM at SFO 11:07pm April 27. I am in an airport. It is late and the stores are closed. I am tired, so tired. And I have two hours to go before my red-eye takes off. I have a bit of a sore...
View ArticleSuch Sweetness, This Life
Oh, how things are crazy right now. I’m in the deepest hell of the launch, when everything is upside-down and nothing is moving fast enough and we don’t have systems and processes and I haven’t hired...
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What Is Within My Silence?
The view from here. November 12, 2015 I have always lived in chaos. It’s what I was born to, first of all: a dramatic and dynamic mother, a total whirlwind of personality, charm and presence whose mind...
View ArticleThe In Betweens
So I finished my first draft of a book outline — and not surprisingly, it’s not quite good yet. No, truly. That’s my agent talking, not just me. And it’s been enough weeks since I finished it, that I...
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