Why Moms Are Hard to Celebrate
What happens when a planning mom arrives to Mother's Day, and she's not supposed to plan anything?
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For the Love of Money
Money, Money, Money. What a charged and ever-present topic. Money can hold meaning in significantly different ways for all of us,...
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On Going Without
What happens when we go without our vices for a few days? Once the physical withdrawal was over, what was left to deal with surprised me.
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Manifesting India
If you’ve been following me on social media, you’ll know that last December, under the full winter solstice moon I wrote a poem about...
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Me, You and India, Too.
What NOT to Do When You Arrive to India The first time I visited India was in 2018. I traveled with my daughter Sophia, who was at the...
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December's Last Page
THE HARDEST QUESTION I’m asked these days is, what are you up to? My short answer is that I’m producing a podcast (New Episode Out Today...
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A Podcast Is Born!
If you've been following along here at Muse On the Mountain, then you know I made a pretty radical career departure in July. There was...
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The Accidental Feminist: How Iranian Women's Push for Freedom Is Everyone’s Fight
I’m an accidental feminist, and I’m a bad one at that. I don’t own any paraphernalia, I rarely bring it up in conversation, and I’ve...
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Dia de Los Muertos (y los borrachos)
My feet were still hovering above the earth that October. I had just arrived to the World Heritage city of Antigua in the Guatemalan...
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The Last Leg
The last leg of the trip before heading home was all about family. We left my parent’s in Arizona and flew out to be reunited with Ryan...
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To Denver, with Love
Resident Inn in the business district was not the plan for Denver. The plan was to stay in the suburbs with friends, and hike, and enjoy...
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For the Rockies
We’ve gone to Ouray, Colorado and we’re never coming back! So said the gods of thunder and lighting and fevers and headaches. Out of Zion...
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For Zion (part 1)
We last left off on the heat-beaten road to Vegas. In the hotel there was migraine recovery, over-priced food, a roof-top pool, and...
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How to Quit a Perfectly Good Job
The interesting things about the trajectory of my career is that I’ve become whatever it is I’ve decided to be. But if I were to graph...
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What If I Was Happy, the Year I Decided to Try
I didn’t even know what the word Happiness meant to me, or what it looked like out in the real world.
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On Mothers and Daughters
The process of letting go is more imperfect than I ever imagined. It makes me think of my mother and how we’ve navigated the same process.
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The Only Dive Trip We Ever Needed
That time we accidentally on purpose went diving in Fiji with Jean-Michel Cousteau Did I mention we built-out the garage over the summer?...
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A Letter to My Younger Self
But this time, for a fleeting exhale, I allowed myself to look past all of that and see you in a way that normally doesn’t have a chance.
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On Writer's Block: Why Shame and Perfection Make Ridiculous Bedfellows
The real crime is that I listen. I put down the pen and agree that it’s awful.
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