Some dear friends had been talking up Bikram Yoga, also known as “hot yoga” and it’s miraculous results to me for months, I just never took the time to get to a class. I was resolved to end this gluttonous, food-filled Thanksgiving weekend by doing something healthy for myself, and I have fallen out of […]
Our nine-year old son has developed a terrible habit of being, well, grumpy. I remember when it first started, thinking “this cannot be hormones already!” and wondering why our typically-perky eldest son seemed so sassy and and sullen all of a sudden. For example, I pick them up each day at the bus stop, after not taking lunch, […]
Someone jokingly tweeted me yesterday that “It must feel awkward now to have a degree from Penn State.” After I took a deep breath from this sucker-punch, it started to become apparent that one of the most surprising results of the Penn State Sandusky case is the hate that it has caused for a school […]
You may have read about my first experience as SpiderMan-er-Special Olympics supporter as I rappelled from the SunTrust building downtown with a few of my other brave (or crazy?!) Richmond friends to raise funds for the Special Olympics. If not, you can check out that story here (it was a big weekend!) I’d love your […]
Kate Hall scares me. Okay, there – I’ve said it! I mean, she leaps over tall buildings, auctions off Richmond’s most handsome eligible bachelors, and catapults through water-slides at Great Wolf Lodge like a 10-year old. She runs miles in the sweltering heat for fun and actually enjoys it, and she Googles herself just to […]
For any expectant parents out there, disclaimer: please do not continue reading this if you’d like to continue on in your dreamy, nursery-painting, bib-folding, bootie-cooing state of blissful expectation. Your world is about to get rocked. Now before the hate emails start flooding in I’m not proposing we stop having children, for goodness sakes who […]
I’m preparing for my twentieth high school reunion in a few weeks (let’s not even talk about the enormity of this fact, I still think and act like I’m twenty four so am still somewhat in denial.) In the process of looking up friends on Facebook and trying to get reacquainted, I thought: What if […]
Dear Dad: there’s a lot to catch you up on. You have fifteen beautiful grandchildren who are at various stages in their lives: married with kids, stumbling through adolescence, bounding through preschool and elementary school. Your kids have managed to become pretty nice adults, all finishing specialized education, your son even finished his master’s degree. […]
