The Last Leg (part 4)
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 (part 3)
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 (part 2)
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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Confession of a Mom Who Yells
I have to admit, I thought this space would be filled with cute little stories of goat parkour, and tales of life with the kids. Like the...
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Muse in the Desert
Dispatch: Sonora Desert I'm a sucker for a good road trip. To leave behind what is known, to find something not yet known. There is so...
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Dear Kids, Merry Christmas.
Dear Kids, Merry Christmas. This is really a letter to me and your dad. We’re the ones that need a talking to. Okay, actually this is...
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Happy Anniversary, the Oven is Dead.
We celebrated our 15th anniversary in October. Our plan was to walk downtown to the Italian place that we’ve been going to since we...
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Death Touched Down
Death touched down. It’s always around us, but sometimes it comes so very close, alights on a nearby perch, and with its beady eye...
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Dispatch: HERE NOT THERE
Every amazing adventure has an end and it always ends the same way: the bag is packed with sandy flip flops and all the laundry, the last...
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Dispatch: When a Tourist Becomes a Traveler
Here’s where the rubber meets the road. When the excitement of going becomes the reality of being there. When it’s 8:30am and it’s...
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DISPATCH: Puerto Viejo De Talamanca
Finding Marlene in Puerto Viejo de Talamanca, Costa Rica
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