Hey friends! Long time, no write. Ugh – it was, as you can imagine, a rough year, but yesterday was the solstice so we’re halfway done! I’ve been noticing lately around the interwebz that meditation is yet again on the rise as a way of cooling off/down, centering, etc. And, as happens when anyThing becomes…
when did ‘gratitude’ become so grating?
I would consider myself a pretty woo-woo, self-help-y sort of gal – not a crystal or mantra I won’t look at twice – but as I grow into all of this world’s wonders and slowly tease apart what’s meaningful to me, I realize there’s one big modern mode of positive thinking that just doesn’t do…
pillow talk
I was all set to write a cute lil’ blog about a new woo-woo thing I found, and it was supposed to be upbeat but I’m so depressed today (Sunday), I can barely function. And as is usually the case when one is this way, I have no time for it. Also, though, I ask…
Read You Like a Book, Part 2
Woo hoo, part two! And I am a poet and didn’t know it! Just in under the wire, here are the rest of my 2020 quarantine reads, including a book I’m not quite done with but love so dearly and would make such a fabulous gift to yourself in the new year that I couldn’t…
Read You Like a Book, Part 1
It is no secret – or is it? – that I have a true addiction to books, with all of its nerdy stereotypes including but not limited to: reading through recess, alone on a bench; reading through the night, exhausted by day; and that old chestnut of packing approximately seven hardbacks into a suitcase for…
Stumbling Toward Vanity
We all have our shallow things that we miss during this time of social distancing and trying not get sick and die. The beauty industry, I bet, is suffering pretty hard due to the necessity of getting up close and personal with strangers. Then again, I heard around the 2008 recession that beauty is “recession-proof,”…
The Unsung Senses
I myself am not much of a gardener; never have been, and accepting of the fact that I most likely never will be. No matter how hard I try, I find it difficult to keep plants alive – the number of succulents and even air plants (SUPPOSEDLY THEY JUST NEED AIR) to wither and disintegrate…
I Have . . . Feelings About the “Three Men and a Baby” Remake
Dear reader, I never thought I’d be this person. The person appalled at the remake of a film I love. Ghostbusters? Hey! Those ladies are great! Psycho? I don’t really get the point since it’s like shot-for-shot the same thing, but hey! Go on, friend! But when I saw that Zac Efron is signed on…
In Which I Make a Vision Board and Die of Embarrassment
Don’t ask me what’s on my vision board. It’s so . . . cringe. But, I am but a typical woo-woo lady, and two astrologers I follow said that this was the perfect week [note: about a month ago] to make one, so I did. Its content is a secret revealed only to me and…
I Love “Celebrity Ghost Stories”
The show we need right now.
What the Hell is On My Face? 