celebrating the journey. surviving the everyday.
There are things in life we need to be good at. Obviously. There are skills and habits and expressions that benefit us, that make us better people – stronger, resilient, graceful. I find that, for me, I am pretty good at doing. I’m efficient and proficient at doing what needs to be done for my …
Explain something to me. Why do people use the adjective “simple” to describe anything? I’m tired of being told, being taught, being trained to expect simple. “It’s simple, you just. . .” or “It’s not complicated, honey, it’s very simple.” or “Life is simple,” “love is simple,” “it’s all just simple, when you think about …
By “spa day,” I mean “spa 20 minutes.” Seriously. I’m not trying to be witty or funny or sarcastic. I’m trying to be reasonable. Twenty minutes alone. That, right now, constitutes a whole day. And you can’t include any time you’re hiding on the toilet. That’s not a spa. That’s a trick. When you lock …
The other day, Ellie and I were taking a joy ride to the gas station for a coke. We both needed the fresh air, the soda fountain and space from everyone else we’re socially distancing WITH. Part of her remote learning (I love this fancy term for a not-fancy reality. We call it survival learning …
I remember when I met Adrienne. She wasn’t a McCarthy yet, she was a Boss. Literally, that was her last name. Which already made her Britney Spears cool. We were both at the Pure Barre training – I was opening my first (and only) studio and she was quickly opening her second in New Hampshire. …
Years ago, Steve and I started asking our kids this one question everyday. I don’t remember where I learned it or how we decided it was a good idea, but over dinner, homework, something, we’d look at our two young boys and ask: “Ok, ready? Have you thought about it, yet? What was your high, …
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I’m officially over it. I’ve tried not to admit, I’ve denied it at every turn, talked to myself about a much needed attitude adjustment, reapplied deodorant, printed out new activity sheets and played Disney Hits through our tiny animal speakers 59 times too many. I’ve convinced myself I’m actually NOT checking the COVID websites 12 …
We’re home. We’re soft (we meaning me). We need to care for our bodies as well as our minds and hearts. The most efficient way to do that, without a machine or set of fancy colored weights? Planking everyday. Holding a plank. I started trying this as soon as my poor little knee would hold …
Keeping house during the COVID quarantine is, as my husband would say, “like rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic.” Feel that way, too? He has said it many times over the years, and somehow, every time, I laugh. Like all great expressions (immediately, Churchill’s come to mind), it says so much with so few. I’m …
There are lots of ways to think about this and lots of ways to express it. “What’s important to you,” or “What would you save from a fire,” or “what would you have to have on a desert island?” But I like the way Anna and Declan talk about it in Leap Year, a cute …