Inspiration

Grief Journey | Hope | Humor | Inspiration

Haponopono: A Few Little Words that Changed My Life
March 10, 2024February 10, 2025

I hesitate to share this story because it’s so deeply personal, but when something has this big of an impact on me, I want to share it, just in case there’s someone out there who can relate. A few weeks ago, as I sunk into my delicious nightly ritual of bubbles and books, the scents of sicilian oranges, lemons, and strawberries foaming up around me, the steam curling the pages of my book, I came across a section that changed…

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Humor | Inspiration

Shoe Shopping
January 13, 2024January 13, 2024

Oh Hello Darling! Where have you been all my life? In all your exquisite luminescent pink? Your delicate curving arch, like a quivering rainbow of invitations… I wasn’t looking for you, oh no. I was looking for a gorgeous storm-proof boot that could withstand slush, and not the pretty pink slush that pours out of a silver lever. I mean the dreadful gray slush that appears after the gentle hush of falling snow has covered the city like a warm…

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Divorce Diva | Grief Journey | Humor | Inspiration

Learning to Love The Truly Dazzling World of Solitude
January 7, 2024February 21, 2024

Conjure up a parliament in old England: a stately room of soaring ceilings, carved wooden chairs and podiums, colorful flags and the smell of lemon furniture polish and Old Spice wafting through the air, except in this room the scents change to freshly fallen leaves, a forest of pine trees, sweet hay, and perhaps a few feathers float through the air. Why? Because this isn’t a human parliament–it’s a parliament of owls. They wear little round glasses, coattails and maybe…

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Inspiration

“I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no more hurt, only more love.” Mother Teresa
December 23, 2023December 24, 2023

I’ve seen things during my time that there are no words for, and now, at the age of 54, when the amount of loss and trauma in my life is staggering and seems too heavy to bear, guess what makes it lighter? Guess what takes away the sting of betrayal, the stunning pain, the sad and heavy heart? Serving children. Anyone who knows me knows I love children, so when I became a Wish Fairy for the Make-A-Wish foundation a…

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Grief Journey | Hope | Humor | Inspiration

Two Dresses and a Spinning Wheel
December 14, 2023December 14, 2023

I spent this morning going through my closet, looking for two dresses: one to wear to a wedding and one to wear to a funeral. Sigh. This grand pageant of life can feel less than grand sometimes. I have a whole team of people I call when the going gets tough. But who am I kidding? The going is always tough. So I just keep my team on call. My team consists of my dream analyst, close friends, far friends,…

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Hope | Inspiration

Jolabokaflod- An Icelandic Book Flood and Signing at the Wenham Museum
December 11, 2023December 11, 2023

Hello My Darlings!! I recently learned that Iceland has a dreamy Christmas tradition involving the gifting of books on Christmas eve, followed by a night of hot chocolate and reading together by the fire. This is my idea of a perfect night (I would add in dancing and jumping on the couch, but a great book, cocoa and a roaring fire on Christmas eve? Sign me up!) This tradition is called Jolabokaflod which translates to a “book flood,” I would…

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Being a Mom | Hope | Humor | Inspiration | Magical Moments

The Wild Adventure of Parenting a Rockette Rabbit… I mean, Theater Kid
November 29, 2023November 30, 2023

My daughter is getting her college degree in acting in New York City, and it fills me with endless delight to hear about her curriculum.“How was school today?”“It was great! We went to the Central Park Zoo.”“The zoo? Why?”“To pick out an animal.”“To pick out an animal? For what? To take home as a pet?” (Now I’m imagining her riding home on a baby elephant with a snow monkey on her shoulder.)“Mom, no, we have to pick out an animal…

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Hope | Inspiration | Magical Moments

Pumpkins
October 31, 2023October 31, 2023

Today I finally understood why Cinderella was transported into a magical realm by a pumpkin. I can’t believe these big round orange magical things grow from tiny seeds into sprawling vines and then sprout these incredible fairy tale globes, the very essence of growth and transformation. So I decided to visit some pumpkins. Golden leaves flew through the air like Mother Earth was throwing confetti over my car as I drove by, clouds of sun-catching leaves wafting into the air…

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Education | Humor | Inspiration | Magical Moments

How did I end up at Harvard?
September 16, 2023September 17, 2023

I guess the point is that, even now, a million years later, books are my Orient Express, my journey into the Sultan’s Palace, my feet slipped into the upturned toes of a genie’s slippers, and my three wishes involve more books, the kind that feel like catching magic by the tail and making it into a kite, the kind that change minds and nourish souls, and of course, living, passionately, wildly, softly, and always always always, living “by heart.”

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