Fearless Friday: Be YOU

September 9, 2016.Reading time 5 minutes.

Walking with a friend the other day, after mentioning I was now working with a former schoolmate, we began talking about some of the people we went to school with. Did we recall this person, or remember that. Wondered what some of our classmates were up to these days. The type of conversation that inevitably […]

Why Not Wednesday: Protein Granola Bars

August 31, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

I have forever been on a mission to make myself a better snack. One where I don’t have to give (re: compromise) too much, if anything at all. Remember my protein hockey pucks? Yeah, those babies steered me off the path of making my own snacks for a bit. I think I finally ended up […]

Step Outside of Comfort.

August 22, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

“Growth doesn’t happen until you step outside of your comfort zone.” Even before I had my son, I typically went to the beach in the early morning hours. I preferred to get that sun in before it reached its “harshest” time (hours of 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.). I would be set up by 8:30 […]

Taco Tuesday’s Pizza.

August 5, 2016.Reading time 3 minutes.

Taco Tuesday has become an enormous “thing”. #TacoTuesday floods Twitter, Instagram and the likes every Tuesday, just like clockwork. Sometimes, my family and I follow along with Taco Tuesday. I’ll chop up veggie additions, get out the salsa and plain Greek yogurt (sour cream only gets used on potatoes, because in my world, that’s where […]

The Stand Off.

July 29, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Eleven. That’s how many times I didn’t doze, but fully and completely fell asleep at the crib’s side rail. How I didn’t fall off? I’m not quite sure. I believe how I was positioned played a role in keeping me from crashing to the floor. Five. Or maybe it was four? Could even possibly be […]

Beach week and mementos.

July 16, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

It all started with a piece of blue sea glass. Blue and purple are colors you don’t typically come across on the beach. It’s always green and brown. On several occasions, white. Then the odd, almost translucent rock that my 17-month old picked up with an excited “Rock!” It had been exactly one year since […]

Taking the “Bad” out of Bad Yogi.

June 24, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

For the longest time (the span of roughly a decade), I only practiced yoga once a week. Usually Sunday mornings to stretch out all the kinks of the work weeks, the workouts I’d put my body through and just life stressors. It wasn’t until the middle of my second trimester that I began to implement […]

The Heart Doesn’t Quit.

June 20, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

This isn’t a post about being unprepared to do something – which I totally was not prepared to do this race on Saturday. I hadn’t run since March, and only 1.5-mile spits at that. This isn’t a post about motherhood. Or even my total time. Whether I ran it all, or walked some of it. […]

For the (not so) love of Oatmeal.

April 14, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

One of the things that has happened in my adult life is an interest in trying new foods. I’ve tasted, and fallen in love with foods from all over the world. Some foods, that if you told my 18-year old self a decade and a half ago that I’d enjoy – I’d have laughed at […]

No more apologies. I am officially UNapologetic.

April 4, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

“I’m not flashy with my body in public.” This was a text response I sent to my husband after he sent one to me telling me that I should get a string bikini this summer for the beach, after I daringly sent him a collage of dressing room photos to get his input on cut […]