There's nothing like pounding out five miles on the treadmill. At 10pm. After being up for 16 hours. Following a full day of being a mom and a business owner and a mom again and a wife and a friend and a runner. All the hats. Or shoes, maybe. Watching the mileage tick from 4.99…
read moreIf someone is making cookies in your house, odds are you’re aware without them having to yell “Cookies!” for everyone to hear. It's the whir of the mixer, the batter-laden dishes piling up in the sink, the unmistakable smell of chocolate chips melting at 350ºF that communicate the message without a spoken word. Your brand…
read moreWhether you rebel against it or not, society has conditioned us to measure success against a rigid set of metrics. Case in point – I had my second baby 18 months ago and here’s what I thought success looked like: Exclusively breastfeed for six months (but ideally two years). Focus on rest during (an eight-week)…
read moreThe concept of new beginnings on January 1st has always seemed ironic to me. The reason being that, most of the time, last year and this year fall within the same week. And if new year, same week isn’t bad enough, this year we were all supposed to wake up and make life-altering changes on…a…
read moreLast weekend I found myself in the car going to pick up a grocery order - alone. Parents, IYKYK. I’d planned to maximize those 27 minutes by catching up on a podcast at 1.75x. But those plans were hijacked as soon as I turned on the car and found myself two versus into “Adia” with…
read moreKnow what I hate? An asterisk without a corresponding annotation. It's pretty much the worst kind of story loop, especially when there are a million other topics jockeying for position in my brain. Angst ensues. Indignation for the inconvenience of wonder. How could someone be so careless! I have things to do, I don't have…
read moreThere’s nothing quite like thinking you’re winning at [parenting. marketing. running your biz.] only to realize you’ve gotten comfortable with the status quo and conflated “how it is now” with “how it will be forever.”
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