I have four children. I could’ve easily had more. I wanted to create a nation. We would be a unit of people who loved and laughed and made homemade bread. We would read classic literature out loud and play musical instruments and paint our ceilings blue. My kitchen table would be a cornucopia of home-grown…
make me something beautiful
I have experienced a great privilege in life in that I have always been surrounded by creative people. musicians, writers, poets, painters, singers, songwriters, sculptors, humorists, dancers, actors, dreamers, photographers, film-makers, gardeners, chefs, decorators, mixologists, seamstresses, problem-solvers… Artists. Maybe these are the types I am drawn to, or maybe there is a bit of an…
Did anyone else google GDP last night?
Here’s my truth: I didn’t know what the freak GDP meant in the debate last night. I’ve never been faced with that acronym before. I’ve never needed to know. I’ve never given two twits about the Gross Domestic Product. I still don’t really know what it means. I read a bunch- but I didn’t really…
Thank You, Mr. Trump
Dear Mr. Trump, I am writing you to thank you for the impact your campaign has had on me as a female citizen of the United States. I must be honest- and courageously vulnerable, but before you- I didn’t pay much attention to the presidential elections, or politics for that matter. I also didn’t pay much…
get your sock outta my face
Years ago- that makes me sound so old! -A while back, I was given the opportunity to speak to some teenagers. I wasn’t that much past a teenager myself, but I’d had three kids by then, so I qualified as an adult. I remember pondering and praying and presuming what might be a useful nougat of…
apparently hard
It’s hard to be a parent. I have 2 who are now of making-their-own-choices age. Two, dare I say, adults…. As I was driving home today I was replaying our last 15 years, thinking about my kid’s futures, and I said out loud- ‘I didn’t do a good enough job’. I didn’t do a good enough job….
cereal online dating
Tinder. Bumble. Plenty of Fish. Match. etc…. Connection. Relationship. It’s what I desire. What I need. What I hungrily crave. And as any species does, I’ve adapted. This is how we meet people these days- this is how we communicate -this is our evolutionary dance. We evolve or we don’t survive, right? It’s different. Feels…
Divorce has made my heart grow
I didn’t think it would. I didn’t know it could. And I suppose in some cases it could make one’s heart shrivel and atrophy and eventually die. But that is sad and morbid. I’m going to go with Grow. My experience with divorce heavily involves children- which is a layer that has made it much more…
to be known, or not to be known…that is the question
A while ago I saw a Ted Talk by Brene Brown, ‘The power of vulnerability‘. It’s good. It’s really good. I highly recommend it. One of the things she hits on is that the only way to truly experience connection is to be vulnerable. And the thing that keeps us from connection is our fear…
sarah
This past weekend, my boys and I had the pleasure of staying at my brother and sister-in-law’s ranch house. Stunning views, exhilarating horseback rides, gorgeous food, quality time with family. On the drive home, unanimously decided, a great weekend. But there was something heavy that lingered in the air, it followed me home, and lingers still….
crazy is the new normal
I got some really good news this weekend. I found out that I’m not crazy. Rather, I found out that all my craziness is normal. This is a huge relief to me. I finally made an appointment to see someone who knows a thing or two about what I’ve been through. Someone who has walked…
Light and Science and things…
I went back to my most favorite yoga class today. It was like coming home. It’s been almost a year, but it felt like I’d been there just yesterday. That’s what home feels like. But that’s a whole different blog. There was this thing that my yoga teacher said about stars. It got my…
Rebecca Thornberry 