Quote of the week:“Wisdom is knowing I am nothing, love is knowing I am everything, and between the two my life moves.” –Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj What I’m reading:Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty How to Prepare for Climate Change: A Practical Guide to Surviving the Chaos by David Pogue (this book is both depressing and extremely helpful… I — Read More
Weekly Roundup: December 10, 2021
Quote of the week:“Everything is broken and messed up and completely fine. That is what life is. It’s only the ratios that change. Usually on their own. As soon as you think that’s it, it’s going to be like this forever, they change again.” –Meg Mason, Sorrow and Bliss What I’m reading:Sorrow and Bliss by Meg Mason — Read More
Weekly Roundup: December 3, 2021
Quote of the week:I have two, both from Brené Brown, who appeared on Glennon Doyle’s podcast this week. “Language gives us a neurobiological handle on what feels too amorphous and gauzy to grab.” “Change always includes a series of small deaths and if we don’t understand that grief is going to be a part of — Read More
Weekly Roundup: November 26, 2021
First of all, I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. And now for the roundup… Quote of the week:Here’s a good one for Thanksgiving week: “Sometimes I need only to stand wherever I am to be blessed.” –Mary Oliver What I’m reading:Parenting from the Inside Out: How a Deeper Self-Understanding Can Help You Raise Children — Read More
Weekly Roundup: November 12, 2021
Quote of the week:“I thought I was alone who suffered. I went on top of the house and found every house on fire.” -Baba Farid What I’m reading:Moms Don’t Have Time to Have Kids: A Timeless Anthology by Zibby Owens What I’m listening to: We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazzato What I’m — Read More
Weekly Roundup: November 5, 2021
Quote of the week:“Write the tale that scares you. That makes you feel uncertain. That isn’t comfortable. I dare you. In a world that entices us to browse through the lives of others to help us better determine how we feel about ourselves, and to in turn feel the need to be constantly visible — — Read More
Weekly Roundup: October 29, 2021
Quote of the week:“All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.” –Karen Blixen What I’m reading:A Radical Awakening: Turn Pain Into Power, Embrace Your Truth, Live Free by Dr. Shefali Tsabary What I’m listening to:Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows by Balli Kaur Jaswal What I’m watching:World Series — Read More
Weekly Roundup: October 22, 2021
Quote of the week:“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.” –Jane Goodall What I’m reading:We Run the Tides by Vendela VidaClarity & Connection by Yung Pueblo What I’m listening to:Fierce Self-Compassion: How Women Can Harness Kindness to Speak Up, Claim Their Power, and — Read More
Weekly Roundup: October 15, 2021
Quote of the week:“Every single one of you, of us, has the same indomitable spirit. We just have to learn to free it, to follow it, to trust in it, to follow where it takes us. To lose fear and go out there and do what our indomitable spirit would like us to do. That’s — Read More
Weekly Roundup: October 8, 2021
Quote of the week:“Out of these flat almost two-dimensional boxes of paper will spring mountains, lions, concerts, galaxies, heroes. You will meet people who have been all but destroyed, who have risen up and will bring you with them. Books and stories are medicine, plaster casts for broken lives and hearts, slings for weakened spirits. — Read More