I'm sitting in my office, and I haven't been able to be in here longer than five minutes since Monday, the day we lost our girl Gracie. So that feels like an improvement to yesterday, where I couldn't even open my eyes without crying. Did you know that you can cry, even when your eyes [...]
Category: Personal
Buy Nothing New In 2021

Some time at the beginning of last year, before the pandemic, before social distancing, before the dining room closures of my favorite restaurants and bars, I watched a segment on Hasan Minhaj's Netflix Series Patriot Act that centered its discussion around fast fashion. Following the half hour eye-opening episode, I made a vow for 2020: [...]
Life Updates: Matryoshka, Mental Health, etc.
We Bought A Commercial Property!

Typing that out gave me the biggest sense of achievement... We bought a commercial space! We own it! It's ours! It's been a long time coming but I figured I'd write up about the process of buying a commercial building for those who may be interested in following along or doing it for themselves. This [...]
FAIL!: How I Messed Up BIG In A Project… TWICE.
New Year Affirmations, Not Resolutions

This post may contain affiliate links. If you're the kind of person who gets equally caught up in and annoyed by New Year's resolutions, then welcome to the club. As a person who is in recovery from an eating disorder, my resolutions often looked like "lose ten pounds," "work out harder," or "get a six-pack". [...]
Navigating Intuitive Eating Through The Lens Of An Eating Disorder

Trigger warning: eating disorders, anxiety, depression. Eating disorders and disordered eating have been a recurring set of characters for as long as I can recall. As far as I am aware, I've lived with some form of body dysmorphia and disordered eating since at least the third grade. In order to best discuss my experience [...]