Wow, OK. I have missed you. I hope life is treating you well.
On the one hand, I can't believe my last email was in March, in the wake of the Atlanta shootings. To say that it's been a time is kind of a massive understatement. There's been a lot going on so instead of an insightful essay, I thought I would share the topline reel of personal and professional things.
At long last, I am finally fully vaccinated and while the mama bear in me can't quite fully celebrate while my youngest cub isn't yet vaccine eligible, I will say that I went to Trader Joe's for the first time in 6 months last weekend and it was also my first time popping into a grocery store just to pick up a few things since the pandemic started. It was practically an out of body experience.
This week a good deal of my professional and emotional bandwidth was spent dealing with right-wing trolls in relation to a beloved client.
I also needed to do a bunch of racial education this week and OMG THE EMOTIONAL DRAIN. I played tennis with my husband after dealing with some of this shit (photo above) and he was like, “Whoa, where did the fire on these serves and groundstrokes come from?” Apparently dismantling racism is good for my game.
The agency for which I serve as creative director was acquired! Creatively and team-wise, this is an amazing thing but logistically I am tearing my hair out trying to figure out how to streamline my many Google calendars and emails. SOB.
At the end of April, I finally came to the end of a very painful personal journey. I haven't been able to write about it publicly, which is really, really hard for me, but maybe someday I will.
I read some really fantastic books in March, April, and May.
Edit Your Life has had a baller spring, including regular episodes with Asha and a slew of phenomenal guest interviews. I feel so grateful to know so many smart people.
Yesterday was Jon and my 21 year anniversary. 21 years! We had sushi outside at a restaurant and then went into a J.P. Licks where masks are no longer required for vaccinated people. Even though I am fully vaccinated I basically panicked and needed to leave the store. Clearly, I'm not really ready to join society.
I'm now a contributor for CNN's new Life, But Better vertical. What the hell is even happening?
Hugs are back on the table with my Mom and I am here for it.
I shared some of my favorite spring comfort picks and they continue to give me life.
I grew some big ass mushrooms. Highly recommend.
James the standard poodle now knows how to nap in my office – without eating my office. This is a huge breakthrough so I can work in my office again! I also have started taking him to the dog park to try to socialize him. OMG dogs are so much work AND he is the best decision we have made in a while.
A piece I wrote for The Washington Post on preserving slow was teased on the front page of the newspaper and was on the cover of the interior lifestyle magazine. That was pretty freaking crazy.
I have health/lifestyle pieces forthcoming in Boston Globe Magazine and CNN that I am tremendously excited about because I hope they will help crack apart stigma and the shitty narratives we tend to hold about ourselves.
