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Rashy, Toothless, and Pumped Full of Meds. Europe, I’m Here.

  • Posted on May 11, 2019May 23, 2019

I imagined arriving in Europe feeling gorgeous and glamorous. Instead, I arrived with a nasty neck-to-ankles rash. Then I lost a tooth. Lovely, eh? Let me explain. The Backstory This…Read More

Relationship Status

  • Posted on September 27, 2018October 10, 2018

I did it. I changed my relationship status on Facebook. It’s not even something that you—or anyone but me—can see. Much of my personal info on Facebook has been “private”…Read More

Sunset in Lumbarda.

My ‘Hood: Lovely Lumbarda

  • Posted on August 14, 2018August 14, 2018

Welcome to Lumbarda. For now—until November, when the rules of tourism require that I leave the country—lovely Lumbarda is my home. I arrived here a week and half ago. It’s…Read More

A Sharp Turn

  • Posted on August 5, 2018September 20, 2018

Well this is different. Sometimes your life takes a sharp turn. You might end up on a path completely different from what you expected. And it might not be a…Read More

Of all the things I love, finding a heart on the sidewalk is one of them.

All the Things

  • Posted on May 20, 2018May 20, 2018

All the things—or at least eight of them—that I’m loving lately. Everything about this headline (and the yummy-looking recipe that follows). I dare you. Try not to bust up laughing at…Read More

yellow doll handmade by my mom

Mom and Her New Brood

  • Posted on May 13, 2018May 14, 2018

Since the day I met my mom, I’ve known her as determined. My mom gave birth to me, a rather chunky newborn, after 24 hours of labor and flat-out refusal…Read More

Me, taken 45 years before my milestone birthday

My Milestone Birthday (aka 50 AF)

  • Posted on April 29, 2018April 30, 2018

A strange thing happened last December. I turned 50. I know. I’m as shocked as you. As my friend Jené said to me recently, “You are 38 in my brain.”…Read More

Collage image form article on Thrive Global titled 19 Journalists Share Their Top Suggestions To Succeed as a Woman In Journalism

Women Journalists Get it Done

  • Posted on April 29, 2018April 30, 2018

19 women journalists who rock. (And whoa, I’m one.) What an honor to be included in this piece about women journalists on Thrive Global. Authors Yitzi Weiner and Daniele Robay asked…Read More

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