[caption id="attachment_1618" align="alignright" width="1024"] Image credit- aswirly.com[/caption] It was just before midnight on that muggy August night. My windows were down. I took the winding back roads so that I could take my time, turn the radio up, and remember the feeling of the hot wind of my hometown...
I have never written a book review, but because I loved this book by so much, I am inspired to write this. Dani Shapiro grew up as an only child in an orthodox Jewish home in New Jersey. Her reserved, devout father died in a tragic car...
A good friend of mine posted this quote on her Facebook wall a couple of weeks ago and I have been thinking about it since: If you are depressed you are living in the past. If you are anxious you are living in the future. If you are...
I love cemeteries. In one of my college media classes I was given an assignment to create a video using the principles of visual composition. I chose to shoot it at a cemetery that didn't allow head stones. The barren, rolling hills dotted with vases of flowers made...
[caption id="attachment_1450" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Photo Credit: skyandfireflies.tumblr.com[/caption] For whatever reason, my three-year-old daughter tunes into emotions. Whenever she hears someone crying, she always points it out. I've encouraged her to hug people when they cry, to try to help people if they are sad by being kind. Mostly...
There are two beliefs that flow like an undercurrent beneath all the stratified layers of anxiety in my life. The details of our pasts make up the individual patches in the quilt of our lives and those patches are vital to the patterns we create in our future. And...
When one of my babies is sick and feeling a general sort of pain, one that makes them cry and ache all over and there's nothing I can do about it--the only thing I can think to say is, "I know baby. I know." It's the same...
I wrote this post weeks ago. Every time I think about publishsing it, I freak out a little because no one knows this, not even my bestest friends and that makes my heart beat a little faster just typing it. I have gone back and...
This is a famous painting from 1638 by Peter Paul Rubins called The Three Graces. These women depict the Goddess daughters of Zeus, and by 17th century standards, they are exquisitely beautiful. The first time I laid eyes on a "Rubinesque" woman I couldn't stop playing the 'what...
I bought this little contraption the other day. It's a single serving vegetable steamer for making baby food. Truthfully, it was an impulse purchase. It was on the discount shelf and I thought it would come in handy and also inspire me to make more fresh baby food. I looked and looked all over the package but...