pondering
Every week, after I put the finishing touches on my newsletter and hit “Send Broadcast,” 1ShoppingCart takes me to a confirmation screen that asks if I’m sure I want to send the email to my entire contact list. Every week, I say yes. The click is…Read More
I had an awesome 10-mile run on the last day of 2013. So awesome, that I decided 2014 should be the year I run the Cincinnati Flying Pig marathon again in May. It’s been four years since I’ve done a marathon. I’m going to be 40 this year (yes, I am…Read More
I had a little eating problem in college. You know, I’m a girl, I’m white and middle-class, and I have overachieving tendencies. Plus, I came of age in the early 1990s, when “fat free” was the big thing. Was I really going to escape disordered…Read More
The last few weeks of the year may be filled with twinkly lights and bright-eyed kids playing with new sets of Legos, but for me, they’ve always felt like a bridge between the old and the new—between the stuff you carry with you into the new year,…Read More
It’s a ritual for me to watch Love Actually every holiday season (yes, I only like happy movies). But there are so many great scenes: Hugh Grant dancing, the dirty movie “stand-ins” and their awkward conversations, Colin Firth in the lake (any time…Read More