I’d be remiss, in this month of the most infamous holiday of commercial love…to not address, at least some semblance of it’s passing. I’m referring, of course, to Valentine’s Day. On average, 23 million roses are purchased and gifted as a demonstrative expression of the love we hold, share and give. I’ve spent a lot …
Over the last several years I’ve developed somewhat of an obsessive interest in understanding the pathology of human behavior. The lingering echoes of my own life adventures have also made me insatiably curious about the journeys of those who share this planet with me. I find it almost miraculous, how integral each story is to …
Motherhood is one of those things in life I endeavored to be excellent at. I meant it so much, that prior to my youngest turning one, I was front row at an annual Mom’s Conference on ‘professionalizing motherhood’ with notepads, highlighters and my very best intentions. Subsequently, it became my mission to ‘get it right’ …
It feels, of late, that I am in over my head. Things, life…keeps shifting; altering shape and dimension. I am running as quickly as I can, attempting to keep up. Yet, the room keeps turning. I’ll never forget my first ‘big girl’ job at the age of 20, landing a gig with one of the …
I was due to meet her at City Winery in 2 minutes and the restaurant is 10 minutes away. Drats, the stress of my tardiness started to make my stomach jiggle internally in that feeling pukey kind of way, that darn second coat of mascara. I forced myself to slow down and take a deep …
I used to scream at the universe for not unveiling to me all I once the life answers I so earnestly searched for. I went as far, at times, as to demand those answers. When I realized they weren’t coming as I so desperately anticipated, I began to master ways to directly influence situational and …
One of My grandmother’s hundreds of dreadfully nagging sayings that she pounded through my “thick skull” for years went something like “you came into this world with nothing, and that’s exactly how you’re going to leave here.” She was a super hero…my bat-shit crazy grandmother… She was my super hero at least, along with a …
It was the most untimely Chicago blizzard I’d known of in years. The Shamrock Shuffle of 2009 which would be my first year of a now much anticipated tradition. Wowza…nine years sure did go by at a speed I never truly anticipated possible. And it turns, you know…the universe as we know and hold it …
Spring in Chicago is finicky at best. Sometimes she’s an absolute stunner-fully her immaculate self in bloom. These are the days when everything in life feels…possible again. Youth is remembered and embodied, laughter rolls from our faces with an organic ease, because it’s challenging not to smile when the sun is shining down on us. …
“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly… but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” — Maya Angelou We are living amidst a time of significant change which charts to us individually across an array of major life intersections. We are encountering personal, familial, political, physical, financial, health, social …