Girls Girls Girls

I just love these...

And that's all she wrote.

Learning Curve

Haven't we have all been this kid or known this kid?

Dolly Parton

My favorite line so far in the brilliant podcast Dolly Parton's America is from a Dolly fan at a concert who tweets, "That majestic bitch just started playing the goddamn PAN FLUTE."

Keeping It Real

In Japan, there is a Halloween subculture that zeroes in on the most mundane details of life for inspiration. There is a poetry to these snapshot costumes that I really enjoy.

Easy Now

seal lullaby

oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is upon us

and black are the waters that sparkled so green.

the moon, o'er the combers, looks down to find us

at rest in the hollows that rustle below. 

where billow meets billow, there soft make a pillow

oh, weary wee flipperling, curl at thy ease.

the storm shall not wake thee, nor shark overtake thee

asleep in the arms of the slow-swinging seas. 

by rudyard kipling

I Am A Feminist

I binge-watched this show... 

I read this article... 

I thought about this essay... 

I laughed at this post...

I want to remember that I am a feminist. That I am not alone.

And that it's hard. 

Guns & Hate

How about we treat every young man who wants to buy a gun like every woman who wants to get an abortion? Mandatory 48 hour waiting period, parental permission, a note from his doctor proving he understands what he's about to do, a video he has to watch about the effects of gun violence. Let's close down all but one gun shop in every state and make him travels hundreds of miles, take time off work, and stay overnight in a strange town to get a gun. Make him walk through a gauntlet of people holding photos of loved ones who were shot to death, people who call him a murderer and beg him not to buy a gun. -- Author Unknown

Will we ever learn and choose a different path as a nation?

If you want to understand any problem in America, you need to focus on who profits from that problem, not who suffers from the problem.  -- Dr. Amos Wilson

Lady No-Kids

I am no longer the one driving the goose chase. I am now the one following the goose chaser.

Time To Create

A friend turned me on to this wonderful article about women and creative, unfettered time. It rings so true. What a tragic world we live in. Beautiful, yes, but also awful and heartbreaking.

Latest Binge

Wow. It's true. Fleabag is really, really good.

GOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLL

Oh yes. We needed this.

Spring Travels

Ben and I were glued to the window as we watched the airplane's shadow traverse the textured landscape. Arctic terns dipped among the lupine that carpeted the sides of the road. We ate and slept as wind buffeted everything in sight.

We made our way down narrow lanes through fields of wheat lit by poppies in search of the gate to Janie's chateau. Framing the window, roses bent their heads in the pelting rain as I held my sleeping child. We swam and watched a swan preen on the banks of Lake Geneva. We ate. We read in the quiet of the heat wave.

We drove and drove until we were hemmed in by stone walls. Lavender hummed with the industry of bees and Ben saw every abandoned space as a potential chicken coop. We ate and ate. We slept in rooms made as dark as caves. We celebrated Robbie and Morgan's marriage and cats reigned supreme next door.

We retreated to higher ground on the flanks of spent volcanoes. We walked through grasses rich with wildflowers, sprays of violets and foxglove. Ben took his first shower. Shadows were softened by candlelight and we bowed each time we crossed a threshold. Evan found a French board book and puzzled out its rhymes. We drifted asleep and awoke to crickets and cowbells. 
  

Dead To Me

This new Netflix show is dark, smart and funny. Messes with your head a bit, but worth the ride.

Tiny Love Stories

I love this Modern Love series in the New York Times. What could be better than truth at a hundred words or less? A collection of those truths. Yup, that's better.

If Only

To all women who nurture and bring to life, who create and sustain.

Thank you for risking, for choosing love.

Baby news abounds these days-- some of it sweet

and much of it sour.

Oh, baby.

May our reverence for life and women grow.

And So It Begins

Sunday nights for the next six weeks are spoken for (at long last).

Simply Brilliant

This NYC couple cracked the code on wedding receptions if you ask me! 

In A Word

Once labor began...


Giving Birth : Inevitable

Pain : Irrelevant

Parenthood : Unrelenting

Social Skills : Lacking

Kiddo : A Total Fuckin' Joy

Well, that about sums it up for me.

The Puffy Layer Goes Couture

 A Moncler collaboration with Valentino designer, Pierpaolo Piccioli, these gowns take the insulating layer to the next level.

Imagine these on a wilderness expedition-- heaven!

Practical formal wear for the appropriate climate.

Now, THESE Are Some QUILTS!!

Fiber artist, Bisa Butler, redefines the medium with these portrait quilts.

They remind me of Barkley Hendricks, another artist whose work I love.

I Left My Heart In The Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides are one of those places on this earth that pulls at me.

These incredible Storm Barrel works of art by Meg Rodger remind me that there is a life for me on those islands that begs to be lived.

These testaments to storm and surge, wind and waves, issue a siren call if there ever was one.

We 💋 Eric

Evan and I found this marathon-worthy watchable.

Ladies In The House

It's a good day when these are some of the faces getting sworn into office at a national level. 

Thank god. And more please. Much more. Many more.

On a local level, we are so blessed to have Andi Clifford as a representative in Cheyenne.

Tarmac Dancer

Make joy. Take joy.

Happy New Year!

Holy smokes, 2018 was a doozy. It felt like we were burning white hot and hurtling along at the speed of light throughout. 

May the new year bring some measure of breath and stillness back into our lives. May we come further into being, experience balance, and flourish-- wholehearted and content. May 2019 be remembered as a gentle and nourishing year.