Divorce Diva | Grief Journey | Hope | Humor
Malarkey! Poppycock! Balderdash! Horsefeathers! Divorce!
The Tomfoolery, Trash, and Twaddle that is the Divorce World
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Paris
“If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.” Hemingway
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Busby Berkeley Dreams
We still dance on whirling stages in my Busby Berkeley Dreams
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Finding My Own Invincible Summer
This morning I woke up to rain and went outside to drag in all my patio cushions, and the air smelled salty, like the sea, and I thought, “I really don’t want to be spending my time doing this. I want to be writing, baking, exercising, packing for our upcoming move…” But the sea air…
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Grief Journey | Hope | Humor | Inspiration
Have You Ever Wrestled with a Rainbow Unicorn? How About a Hegelian Dialectic? Or an Ancient Text?
This morning I woke up to the scent of baking bread and literally floated down the stairs on a cloud of cinnamon. My house guest, Alma Luce is a stress-baker, meaning this morning, she made three loaves of braided cinnamon-sugar challah bread, black beans and rice and molasses cookies. Alma Luce is a blue-eyed eighteen-year-old…
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Traveling to Burgundy with Teenagers
Last summer I turned 50 and took my teenagers and my niece on my dream trip to Europe. So far, I have blogged about Venice, the Orient Express, and our road trip from Paris to Chateau Des Milandes in the Dordogne Region. At the end of our trip, we drove to Burgundy for two glorious…
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Divorce Diva | Grief Journey | Hope | Inspiration | Kim | Magical Moments
Looking for Clarity on a Foggy Morning
I woke up feeling blue. I stumbled through my usual routine: grateful list, brush teeth, comb hair, put on mascara, fold laundry from last night and start the next load, toddle downstairs for a cappuccino, water my flowers… As I was watering, I listened to the birds chirping and watched the fog laying heavy over…
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Grief Journey | Hope | Humor | Inspiration
Writer Jitters
So my new mystery novel comes out on Saturday on Amazon and I could not be more thrilled! I say this because I’m also feeling quite trepidatious about it, and I just read a very interesting study that you can reduce anxiety by embracing it as excitement. This sounds a little too simple to be…
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Magic on the Orient Express
Right now, tonight, on this moonlit night, I am dreaming of trains, and specifically the luxury train to end all trains: the Orient Express. I took my teens last summer and we aspired to create our own Golden Age of Travel…
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Divorce Diva | Grief Journey | Hope | Humor | Inspiration
Revenge Body 2: The Quarantine Post-Divorce Diet Involving Waffles and Whipped Cream
This is my Workout Wear.
