Today I spent the day on the lake. About six weeks ago I was terrified to sit on a paddle board while it was still attached to the dock. Today I ate lunch on my paddle board in the middle of the lake!!! It was awesome. I wear a bikini every day when I paddle […]
Lessons I've Learned
Two Weeks Without The Kids
The kids are spending the next two weeks with their father. This is an opportunity I dreamed about when I was married and in the thick of it with the kids. Two weeks alone and able to do whatever I wanted whenever I wanted? YES PLEASE. And now, here we are. I’m used to Ingrid […]
The Truth About Direct Sales
I’ve worked with a bunch of different direct sales/network marketing/social selling/whatever-the-heck-you-want-to-call-them companies over the past ten or fifteen years. The first company I joined was Southern Living. I don’t know if they still exist, but it was cookbooks and cooking stuff and Gail Pittman pottery and dishes. I didn’t love most of the stuff and […]
Boarding School
About four-and-a-half years ago I was at a swim meet with Kristofer and Ingrid at MIT. There were a bunch of teams there from Massachusetts and New York and Connecticut. As luck would have it, my college roommate and swim teammate (who lives on Nantucket) was at the meet with her son (who is the […]
Does Your Heart Break A Little?
Last summer was one of the most physically and emotionally exhausting summers of my life. It was grueling, actually. I could list all the reasons why, but those details don’t really matter, because I don’t need to justify what’s grueling to me. I don’t need to prove to anyone why it was hard. It was […]
I guess I’ve come full circle.
My oldest son, Kristofer, was a pretty shy kid. He spent his only year of preschool being a lurker in the background. His teachers were a little concerned that he never spoke in class. Like literally never. He was the same in kindergarten and first grade. Very quiet, very shy, and very easily intimidated. He […]