Let's Talk About Banned Books, Baby
Let's take a moment to channel our inner Salt-N-Pepa: Let's talk about banned books baby Let's talk about you and me Let's talk about all...
Travel's Greatest Gift: Perspective
“That traffic out there is murder!” said a man in the Vermont village post office. “I know! I waited forever,” a woman replied. I...
Unlearning the Stories We Tell Ourselves
“Suzie got kicked out of the ballet when she was four.” That’s a family story I’ve heard ever since I can remember. The story goes...
Drinking the Kool Aid and Dirty Dancing on Gopher Pond
A giant black and white photo of a group of people who look like campers straight out of the 1979 movie “Meatballs” hangs on the wall of...
Covid, Ureaplasma, and the Psychic Medium
After returning to the US, I woke up with a porcupine in my throat. My head and lungs filled with gunk and I felt like I was glued to the...
Reunion
It’s like this YOU glow Eyes the brightest blue Belief in your words Finally sure That you’re good enough YOU are the luckiest man in the...
I'm Writing a Memoir About Healing Chronic Lyme Disease
I recently attended an amazing writing retreat and residency in Greece offered by fabulous authors and magical humans, Kate Emmerson and...
Boo and Shorty Board The FUN Boat
“Kalimera!” Nicole and I said as we stepped onto the sailboat in Mykonos Harbor. “Kalimera!” Two pretty dark-haired women and a man and a...
Mykonos and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Ferry Bad Day
“Let’s take a ferry. It will be fun!” I said while Nicole and I were FaceTiming and planning our Greece trip a few months ago. Boy, was I...
The Flying Dress in Santorini
When someone in my female digital nomad group posted photos of herself in a red flowing dress that popped against the blue sea and white...
Hammama Mia!
When MJ, another writer on the fabulous Greece writing retreat I'm attending asked, “Do you want to go to the hammam?” I said, “Sure!...
The Thing About Things
I need that dress To fix this mess of a life I've chosen to live Oh, what I'd give to have that car That face That space I'll race To get...
Ampcoil and The Stye in My Eye in Greece
I imagine most women like to post pics of themselves when they look pretty. Me? Nah! I'm posting these pics because the coolest thing...
Living the Dream in Lesvos, Greece
I'm in Lesvos, Greece in a tiny village called Skala Eresou. A coastal village so tiny that when the summer is over, the people who live...
Travel Lessons Learned and What I'm Doing Differently
The countdown to Greece is on! Seven days and 1 hour until blast-off. Meanwhile, there's a lot to do to get ready. As I prepare, I'm...
The Countdown to Slowing Down in Greece
In 16 days, 3 hours and 17 minutes, I'm going to Greece. And hell yes, I'm counting the minutes. But before I go, there's a lot of...
50
When I turned 40, I was so happy that I didn't even get mad when Stacie shoved cake in my face. My 30's were shitastic. I'd had a series...
Bad Smells and Other Hotel Non-Negotiables
In the opening of Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, an innocent British couple describes how they booked a vacation package...
When You're Home but Can't Go Home
From the air, LA is a massive grid of never-ending sprawling lights. I remember the first time I saw it, a 22-year-old kid, face pressed...
My Chronic Lyme Disease Healing Journey
In 2012, I moved into a little beach shack right across the street from the ocean. It was kind of junky, but I didn't care. Walks on the...