“…with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees…I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again…” – F. Scott Fitzgerald There is something about the return of the spring light and the sudden...
Last weekend, I decided it was time for some spring cleaning. Not the overly ambitious “empty every closet in the house” kind of cleaning. Just a broad-stroke reset after a long winter. I cleared a stack of papers that had been quietly growing on my desk and organized...
“Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.” – Vincent van Gogh Energy changes as you get older. It simply does. Do you remember when you used to start your night at 9:00 PM? You’d head to a café, order an espresso and pull a focused...
Valentine’s Day tends to evoke roses, prix fixe menus in crowded restaurants and the quiet pressure to create romance. But that framing might be more limiting than we realize. If we’re honest, the things that make our hearts beat faster are rarely based in...
I have 23 voice memos on my phone right now. Some are untranscribed, unlistened-to, slowly accumulating like particles of digital dust. There’s one from last October where I’m apparently making a to-do list while walking to the cafe down my street. Another...
I’d like to tell you I wrote this piece in one glorious sitting, fingers tip-tapping away, ideas cascading onto the page like energetic espresso shots. In reality, I wrote a few sentences, checked the weather in New York (no, I am not in NYC), made chai tea and...
