Moving is Underrated
A good friend of mine just reenacted my move from Phoenix to California for work and she’s finding that moving is not all rainbows and unicorns. She spent her 4th of July weekend fending off broken...
View ArticleDon’t Ride the Sea Turtles: A Lesson in Scuba Diving
Thanks to my mother’s 1980s crush on Harry Hamlin, I spent my early childhood on Clash of the Titans overkill – resulting in both a mistrust of men with really long beards and a healthy fear of the...
View ArticleTailgating is the Sincerest Form of Flattery
One of life’s most universal truths is everybody loves hearing how much you admire their attire. Men, women, and spoiled canines alike – we find great pleasure in having our choice of...
View ArticleHow to Fake a Gourmet(ish) Meal
My latest faux-made meal. I cut the sausage diagonally as I ate it of course. Growing up as the only child of a single working and MBA-earning mother, I learned to “cook” at an early age. The infamous...
View ArticleBananas Won’t Make You Fat – And Nine Other Secrets to Life
I adore a good epiphany – when you’re plodding through life, doing something completely innocuous, then suddenly a moment captures your attention and a tiny little metaphorical light bulb begins...
View ArticleDon’t Know Much About History
History Book I was inspired to get after watching Last of the Mohicans and not knowing who the bad guys were. I just returned from a long weekend in the Chicago suburbs to celebrate my cousin’s high...
View ArticleWaiting Game
After tying double knots in our shoelaces and crying to get what we want, the art of lining up is one of the first lessons we learn as a child. We lined up for lunch, we lined up for field trips, and...
View ArticleHow to be Brilliantly Vague: Corporate Jargon Part 2
I once had a professor who enjoyed incorporating unnecessarily lengthy words in his lectures. At first he sounded brilliant and I hung on his every really long word. Alas, this was a class in...
View ArticleOperation… and Other Games that Make Us Better
I love pasta. It’s a deep love, a passionate love, a two syllable lo-ove. And sometimes you do crazy things for love. So the other night when I was making a little rotini and one fell...
View ArticleThe Shower Affair
This is my 100th blog post. And like any every other important milestone in my life (30th birthday, fifth annual Christmas party, ten-year anniversary reunion of the cast of Friends), I’ve been...
View ArticleHow to Move Five Minutes Away
Shortly after celebrating my three year move-aversary from my Arizona house to my gorgeous California resort-style apartment, I mentally calculated the fortune I’ve been putting into nothing since...
View ArticleThe Dos and Don’ts of Foolin’
The scene is Christmas Day 1991. Snow falls in the Chicago suburbs as an eleven year old girl in red snowman socks (that she still owns) wakes up at 7AM and runs to the tree to scope out the loot. With...
View ArticleWe’re Not in the OC Anymore, Toto
So I’ve moved again. And after a very official two-hands-and-two-feet count I can now claim to have lived in nineteen homes across six states and spanning three continents. I could blame Military Dad...
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