I just launched a new website called a blissful interlude .  In addition to some personal musings on finding those blissful moments in life,...

The new normal is city living.  It is ambulances screaming by at odd hours of the day, food fumes wafting through my apartment window, walk...

“Being alive is a paradox, an ongoing mix of things that on the surface don’t always seem to make sense.  But voicing what doesn’t seem to...

“Block out the noise and refocus on what's inside of you.”  – Russell Simmons Lately, I’ve been thinking about self-soothing and ...

During the workweek, whenever I come home after work, I promptly remove my shoes, hang my purse on the closet handle and drop down my work ...

  “…It’s not what you’ve accomplished in a day, but how the day felt.” After reading this piece on the predictions of happiness and w...

It’s been a while since I’ve done a Frisky Friday roundup of thoughts, so here I go.   Solitude is necessary for working through difficult...

In the journey of life, we all experience hard times, difficult challenges, random curveballs.   Sometimes, we try to push these hard times ...

The one thing that has been stressing me out since booking my flights for Paris was the tight connection at Newark.   Upon checking in las...

In my continued journey of learning to be , here is a little side dish of quotes that have resonated with me this week.  I hope you enjoy th...

Several months ago, I scribbled Brené Brown’s name on a Post-It when a friend recommended watching her Technology Entertainment and Design (...

Now that the dust has settled after reading Eckhart Tolle's The Power of Now , I thought I’d do a little follow-up post.   It is only n...

A random list of thoughts brought to you on a Tuesday by yours truly. It occurred to my on my ride home from work today that Enrique Igles...

Despite the narrow aisles and low ceilings, constructed for a time of skinnier people and skinnier carts, Kmart feels simultaneously spaciou...

Growing up Catholic, going to confession was a regular ritual in my family.    Once a month, my mom would drag my siblings and me to a churc...

Why I've only gotten into the Dexter series now that it is in its final season is beyond me, but in picking Season 7 up (via Netflix) m...

I’m reticent to say a particular book has changed my life to avoid sounding overly dramatic and impressionable, but let’s just be honest her...

I am utterly obsessed with Jessie Ware these days.  Her voice, her style, her essence and soul -- to me, she represents everything that I...

I have been feeling overwhelmed by too much information lately. Not in the “I’m-all-offended-because you’re-telling-me-too-much-information”...

When I was little I was obsessed with swimming, and every opportunity I got I wanted to be in the water.   Because of this, every body of wa...