Essay 8 Stitches Out Today I woke early and was dressed by 5:50am. I rolled into the living room with a water, a book, my glasses and phone. I watched the light come up slowly and just sat waiting , meditating, reading…. waiting for 7:45. My impatience was motivated by the fact that I knew […]
Read More...Essay 7 Everyone Knows They Won States, But No One Talks About The Prom Dedicated to Coach Korrow.. who gets it… Last night the Dulaney Women’s lacrosse team took Sherwood, the #1 seed, down to win the Maryland State Quarter finals. 13-9. As we were seated 8th this was an unexpected upset… for Sherwood. Today […]
Read More...Essay 5 Saroj Salad I am making Saroj Salad. For years when I ran the yoga teacher trainings through The Center For Integrative Medicine at UMMS my students would come to my home for the Reiki training portion of the training. Five times a year 20+ incoming yogis would fill up my circular driveway carrying […]
Read More...Essay 6 Brownies for Breakfast People often tell me I should write a book and I never get used to this huge compliment. When I hear it or read it my body caves in a little. I shrink back. I want to write a book but the picky reader in me doesn’t know if she […]
Read More...Essay 4 “Hey, MaMa, Mommy, Ma, Mom!” Yesterday was Mother’s day and I was thinking about the difference stages of being called Mom. When Lucia was born her mouth wanted to make the Duh sound first. Scott would walk in the room, her legs and arms would wildly kick up the air around her and […]
Read More...Essay 3 Homemade Pizza One of my food picks for a “stranded on a desert island” is pizza. Basically, all day I talk myself out of eating a version of pizza and all things that are a combination of bread and cheese. I usually start off the day wanting an egg sandwich…with cheese… with bacon…. […]
Read More...My mom is taking care of me. I am non weight bearing, off my right foot for the next three weeks with no driving. I have a scooter to get me around and a bottle full of hydrocodone to keep me from getting too down. I have only taken one pill so far and plan […]
Read More...I am not a spitter but my dad is. On the occasion when I must spit a bug out of my mouth, I often end up with some part of my spit on my chin or shirt. It is lack luster, sloppy, girly, unsatisfying spit. My Dad spits like a man. I have not seen […]
Read More...There is nothing that causes me more anxiety than one or two, ok if I am honest, three glasses of white wine. Like the bottle should just have a woman looking out over a sunset with the words, “Anxiety, Napa Valley,” written on the label. For the most part I stay away from white wine […]
Read More...Today the test flight for the app went out and now people are logging on and using the app and giving me feedback. In a week or so the app will be on the app store and I can open it up to the community on the whole. Thank you so much for helping me build […]
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