wellness

  • habit shift: period | reading my tea leaves

    habit shift: period.

    As in my period. Of all the questions I get via email, the ones about my period are the ones that surprise me most. Not that they should. Most of the people who read this blog…

    February 16, 2016 159 Comments
  • woody guthrie resolutions

    stay glad.

    Woody Guthrie’s list of resolutions from 1942. Here’s to hoping, nearly three-quarters of a century later.Wrote a list my own self; hope you guys do too.Happiest New Year, friends.Found on Open Culture. …

    January 1, 2016 10 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: move.

    This post almost didn’t get written. First I had to double-check the price of two tickets to Puerto Rico. Which led me to wondering about cute sun hats for babies with tiny heads. Which…

    February 18, 2015 14 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: museum hop.

    Days boasting wintry or summery extremes are my favorite ones to go museum hopping. Inside the climate-controlled walls of the museum, I can last for hours when I might otherwise succumb to frost-bite or…

    January 19, 2015 13 Comments
  • shake the wintertime blues: ten tiny things.

    Ten tiny things we did over the weekend that made our apartment feel fresh and bright and the frigid temps more tolerable. 1. Light some candles. The hardest part about coming back to our apartment…

    January 12, 2015 39 Comments
  • resolutions.

    I’ve never really written about new year resolutions in this space. I tend to think of them as private scribbles. I write them in tiny letters on the opening pages of the Moleskine weekly…

    January 6, 2014 18 Comments
  • secret: i never take medicine.

    Well, sometimes I do. But not usually. I don’t know why, really. Stubbornness, probably. An overblown belief in willpower, definitely. But even if I can be reluctant to pop Tylenol for a headache, I’m…

    October 8, 2013 26 Comments