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Hello gorgeous friend!! Thank you for granting some grace as I allowed for rest and connection this week! I hope you did too. This time of year has so much jam packed into it, I think all of us experience the vast range of emotions pretty deeply at some point or other. Regardless of what…

Hello brave friend, If you’ve been following along with my Minis for the last few weeks, you know there has been a theme of leaning into the holidays through the lens of connection and shared experience. Consider today’s Mini as another episode in that series! The final installment of the festive events I’d planned to…

Hello brave friend! About a week ago, I saw a meme on Instagram that had me laughing to the point of tears. I’ll describe it the best I can, although the visual is definitely much more satisfying. There was a man standing on a beach, at the waters edge, with a classic industrial mop and…

Hello beautiful friend! When I was eight years old, I wanted a Baby Alive doll for Christmas more than anything in the world. I was desperate for her! I don’t know what it was about this particular doll, the fascination with her lifelike qualities of eating and pooping that made me so eager to hold…

Hello gorgeous friend! Ahhh.. so nice to be together again! I’ve been feeling that feeling a lot over the past few weeks as I have slowed down and taken time to connect with people. Given my lopsided, one armed, healing from surgery status, I am leaning (pun intended) into the help that has been offered……

Hello brave friends! Welp…. This was supposed to be yet another lacrosse tournament weekend as the biggest fan and all around support person to my kick ass daughter, Grace, who loves nothing more than to rip it up on the field. I was prepped to see that fierce determination run wild in the New England…

Hello beautiful friends!! Ok, so THAT was a thing! The retreat in California was… well, a really big thing and I have spent the past week trying to find the words to describe both the experience and how it has transformed me. I am always in awe of how our limbic brain is in charge of processing…

Hello brave humans, This past week I have been navigating some really strong emotions. With the winding down of summer and the new season of fall, I have consciously and intentionally leaned into uncovering what has been growing underneath the surface. At first, it felt a lot like I was planting something new, creating and…

Hello brave humans! This weekend my middle daughter and I began the time honored tradition of looking at colleges. As a junior, it is time she begins to map out where she will go after graduation… or so the world says. In the fall of junior year the checklist of what to do next says,…

Hello my incredible friends! It’s the last full week of August. This place of coming transition…of wrapping up, soaking up the last rays of summer and of the anticipation of fall. For many of us, whether you have children, are an educator, or have some other tie to the school calendar, this is a place…