Pizza Mondays
I started a tradition on Monday nights when my son was probably a freshman or sophomore in high school and my daughter was in 6th or 7th grade, so about 12 or m...
Category: Life
Happiness Lives in the Space of Novelty
A few years ago I was doing some research on existentialism on the advice of a therapist I was seeing at the time. In doing the research, I decided to look fo...
Impracticality and Life Experiences
I’m not usually one to clip articles out of newspapers, although I do love how much information and thought provoking topics I get from reading the Sunday NY Ti...
Weekend Without Borders
It was o-dark-thirty when we crammed nine women, our chauffer, Barry, and multiple suitcases into a Suburban (totally illegal) and raced off to the airpo...
Lighthouse Love
I love lighthouses! I’m not sure why, but it may have to do with the proximity to the water, which is always a draw for me, or the romantic notion of standing ...
Book Review…The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
I know, I’m a rower, and you’re thinking “Really, you’re first book review for your blog is going to be about rowing!” No, actually, I’m going to review an ama...
Catfishing
Catfishing: The phenomenon of internet predators that fabricate online identities and entire social circles to trick people into emotional/romantic relat...
Rowing…Ballet on the Water
Mention that you’re on a women’s masters rowing team and the questions ensue. “Why rowing?” “Oh, did you row in college?” “Do you go out in cold/rainy we...
Thanksgiving…my favorite holiday!
The first two arrived last Saturday….the other two on Wednesday. Both of my children and their fiancés came to SoCal from NY/NJ for the Thanksgiving hol...
I Love Paris in the Springtime
I love Paris, and every quintessential Parisian cliché there is…warm baguettes, brie, Tour Eiffel, Notre Dame, The Louvre, Musee de’Orsay, croissants…the list g...