My 100th Blog Post

My heart is so full. Today marks 100 blogs. 100 ideas that turned into writing. 100 times that I wanted to jump up and down in my pj’s, dancing to 90’s music. 100 times I refreshed my site to see how many of you gave a quick glimpse, or a read, and 100 times I…

Failing at Friendship

Let’s talk friendship. Friendship is something that’s been on my brain a lot lately, and mostly the feeling that I’m failing at it. I’ve always believed that people come into our lives when we need them, and sometimes friends are just for a season, but lately I’m wondering if I only thought some friends outgrew…

Father’s Day

It’s Father’s Day and I’ve got the Father’s Day blues because I don’t know how many more, if any more, Father’s Days we’ve got, me and you. People are posting pictures of dads at barbecues, and dads on wedding days during father-daughter dances, and everyone else’s dad seems happy and healthy and I don’t know…

The REAL Botanical Garden – Stopping to Smell the Roses

Exciting news! Upon admitting that I thought the Brooklyn Botanic Garden was THE Botanic Garden and having been proven wrong, very wrong, I successfully convinced Darren (he didn’t need any convincing) that we should spend our weekend going to the New York Botanical Garden’s Rose Weekend, with over 500 different types of roses in bloom,…