Apparently, all I needed was a little shopping, Italian food, bagels and coffee, college football, good friends, family time, and a weekend pretending I was 21 again. I’ve decided that sometimes you don’t need another wellness routine, or a new self...
Apparently, we’re maxing everything now. Protein maxing, fiber maxing, sleep maxing, strength maxing, longevity maxing. I recently saw “hobby maxing,” and that may have been my breaking point. Can we please leave hobbies alone? I thought the entire...
There is a person in every home who knows where EVERYTHING is. In my house, that person is me. I don’t remember applying for this position, there was no interview, no discussion about salary or benefits, I was just promoted somewhere along the way...
There are certain times in life when you realize you have officially crossed over into adulthood. Getting married, buying a house, having a baby, paying taxes, having a favorite burner on the stove, and becoming emotionally attached to a grocery...
What happens when a woman who spent 20 years being productive realizes she might need to do things for absolutely no reason? I have recently decided I need a hobby. This sounds like a very normal thing for a grown woman to decide, except I’ve...
Cue Taylor Swift in the background while every eldest daughter suddenly realizes the “responsible one” pipeline may have actually just been anxiety with good grades. I saw one of those “eldest daughter core” videos the other day and laughed at first...
After more than twenty years immersed in wellness, I’ve stopped chasing perfection and started trusting my own intuition and using discernment. When people ask what I do, the easy answer is that I work in the radio and music biz writing for morning...
Last week I helped my oldest daughter carry boxes into a college dorm room. We made the bed, organized, unloaded, opened boxes, cleaned, the hubby hung pictures. Then we went out to eat and left. Then, somehow, after eighteen years of school...
Years after summers spent at outdoor concerts in my teens and early twenties, I went to Lollapalooza with my daughter and found something I wasn’t expecting: a little more faith in humanity. I recently learned something I never knew about...
People assume I’ve always been comfortable behind a microphone. After all, I grew up around music and radio. For the longest time, I didn’t think I was someone who struggled with imposter syndrome. I grew up performing, I competed in dance, baton...












