Things Are Really Cooking!
The Pod: You're Up First Starting the year off with some great statistics about the podcast. Check out those numbers! And here's even...
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Happy New Year: A Quick Update
Saturday’s New Year’s Eve Workshop was a huge success! It really was the stuff of dreams for me. Sending out a big thank you to the...
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Two Things to Cap the Year, and a WIN!
YOU ARE WHAT YOU WRITE... Thank you to those of you who registered for the New Year's Eve morning workshop "Let's Write Together". Did I...
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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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GIVING TUESDAY GOES TO INDIA!
On this Giving Tuesday I come to you with such incredible news....in January, I'm going back to India! In 2018, my daughter Sophia and I...
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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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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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