celebrating the journey. surviving the everyday.
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 …
Middle school. They must be the hardest years for everyone. Please tell me this is true. They were for me, at least, and they were, I think, for my brothers and sisters. Everyone is looking at you (they’re not), everyone is judging you and your family (they’re not) and everyone thinks you’re stupid (they don’t). …
So, the new normal. Businesses and companies are adapting to social distancing expectations, and those that offer teleconferencing and remote working tools (think Zoom, Skype, Hangouts, WebEx) are excelling in a market with new and immediate demands. Walmart’s EVP of corporate affairs Dan Bartlett said recently, “[We] were talking about people with Zoom, and doing …
A good friend of mine recently told me how anxious she is…and how difficult this time has been for her and her son. “I’m about to lose it, and frankly, his anxiety is so high, I’m not sure how to help him.” I get it. I recently bought a blood pressure cuff because after surgery, …