Recovering journalist who discovered a life outside of news leaves you time for things like getting angry, cooking and traveling. Plus, hopefully, writing. I’m a wife, dog mom and Washingtonian.
So our nomadic life isn’t really that nomadic, we’re spending our weekdays at my husband’s grandmother’s home in the suburbs. We’re there with his grandma, 92-year-old Gwen, and his mom and dad who are also in the midst of a major home renovation. Three generations and one dog, under the same roof. For a while…
Read more Introducing the New Hit Sitcom: Living in Gwendom (working title)
I love to shop. I’ve shopped because I’m happy, because I’m sad, because I have a big event coming up, because I’m anxious about an impending interview, for every reason under the sun. I love to shop alone, because you can be deliciously selfish. I love to shop with my mom, because nobody knows what…
I’ve found the best AirBnb in North Carolina. Perhaps all of the East Coast. It is a tree house. On an eco farm. It does not have a toilet inside. It is perfect. My much choosier husband agrees, too. I usually make the Hampton Inn Concord / Kannapolis my home base while traveling to the…
In my day job I represent ownership for a Single A Minor League Baseball team. To be clear, I’m not an owner. I work for the owner. It is decidedly not what I imagined I’d be doing when I left television, but I love it. We closed on the White Sox-affiliated team last October, and…
Read more Blasting onto the Scene: Cannon Ballers in Kannapolis
I’m looking to upgrade my language. I’ve told my husband hundreds of times before that I’m going to make an intentional effort to be more positive, catastrophize less, criticize less. Alas, it seems that a few days go by and then I fall back into bad habits. So, internet, I’m asking you to hold me…
This weekend we escaped the fake country that is Potomac, Md., to go to the real country. We booked an Airbnb in Mathias, W.V., and had ourselves a little adventure just two hours from Washington. The Airbnb, The Inn at Abbott Farm, was charming. An up-fitted former carriage house with the original wide plank flooring…
Read more Wild and Wonderful – Getting Lost in Lost City, W.Va.
Just like that, the couple becomes “the couple with the dog.” Traveling with her, taking her to meals, shopping at Bloomingdale’s with her. In our defense, we are nomads and while we aren’t carrying everything on our backs, we do move in a cluster more than we have ever before. So if we’re going away…
I was skimming Man Repeller and fell for the clickbait that is the promise of skin care tips in Harling Ross’s “You Look Moist” column. Now that I’m 31, skin care tips are what “101 Ways to Please Your Man” were to my 16-year-old self. (Let’s set aside the many questions about why those headlines…
We recently went to NYC to see Lizzo at Radio City. That is a post in itself, but would just be graf after graf of effusive gushing, so I’ll resist. We stayed at The Dominick Hotel because I’m fortunate to have a best friend who really appreciates the finer things in life, and has determined…
I bumped into someone on the street earlier today, because I was walking like a moron and talking on the phone. I put away my phone and apologized to the 30-something, very tall man whom I turned into. He gave me an utter look of disgust and kept walking. I said more loudly to his…
The Outraged Eater 