December 25, 2019
Gift Spoiler alert! 🎁 Don’t read if you’re a special person in my life! This holiday season I am giving what I am most proud of–the evolution of my skills in astrophotography! Spending hours pouring over my photographs from this past year, I kind of got choked up. I saw Read more…
Gosh, some people take themselves so seriously! Why when it is much more fun to allow yourself to be all kinds of ways, including ridiculously silly… if that is what your natural inclination is at that moment. For a kid, play is how you learn. But why stop that in Read more…
December 20, 2019
This holiday season came so fast–and I got a really late start on festivities. But now my space is decked in the ways I enjoy: with vintage stuff and nothing from Home Goods. With all errands complete, in my space I bask. My tacky mid century modern tree 🎄 I Read more…
December 19, 2019
You must have not heard me the first time, World. Sweetness!! Bring it on. Especially to the children. Here my annual cupcake decorating in my classroom holiday party. I love to see their blinged out creations on my cupcakes. Chocolate only, in the vein of “you get what you get Read more…
December 17, 2019
I have several work peeps I often unload vegan sweet treats on. And more recently I have become the unloadee, receiving regular vegan baking experiments with a high level of enthusiasm. This holiday season, a give and take of vegan sweetness during designated Parent-Teacher Engagement hours. Because sharing sweetness is Read more…
December 14, 2019
Baking cookie creations during the holidays beats a trip to the store for so many reasons, especially if baking is your most comfortable and expected form of a affection. This rainy Saturday I create two special treats related to the almighty cookie. 1) The New York City bakery favorite, the Read more…
December 12, 2019
I must admit that one of my favorite perks of being a New York City teacher is the free class trips to my fave museum, the American Museum of Natural History. It’s a long trek but always worth it… for me at least. The destination was the new exhibit on Read more…
December 7, 2019
Finding time to get moving is an important part of maintaining health, yeah duh. But too often I am emotionally spent by work and stuck to my couch, decompressing from the days’ battles come evening. Since my summer, my activity level has dropped drastically. With motivation depleted, I haven’t had Read more…
The winter is the best time to plan summer travel. Taking action towards an escape, however distant, just makes me, afflicted with everlasting wanderlust, feel better. Because your happiness is worth some forethought, fill your travel with all that feeds your heart and soul. And book things—not everything but some Read more…
December 20, 2018
I had a great conversation with my father and brother on Thanksgiving. It reminded me how good it feels to relate via critical thinking, to find others who are trying to make sense of a rigged game; to resist, to dissent. Yeah, we talked a lot about conspiracy theories and Read more…
December 15, 2018
On the New Years resolution tip and inspired by my old friend in Seattle: Don’t forget to forget. Neuroscientists and Google searchers know that the brain’s Limbic System, also known as the emotional motor system, has many very important components. Inside, the almighty amygdala. This little piece of grey determines how Read more…
December 9, 2018
With a load of Christmas materials to repurpose after a haul from Materials For The Arts and some donations from friends, I busted out my trusty hot glue gun to create a vintage-inspired holiday wreath. To add some holiday bling to my apartment, I begin my favorite craft medium. I call it 3D Read more…
December 7, 2018
Wong Kar-wai’s In The Mood For Love is about a man and a woman who discover their spouses are having an affair together. A unique relationship forms as they utilize each other to process the betrayal and hurt while assuaging their loneliness. With innocence and a naive curiosity they proclaim, “We won’t be Read more…
November 25, 2018
There are many benefits to clearing clutter from your physical space. Though there is much that you are helpless to internally, much that litters your brain–things that you can’t easily sweep into a dustpan–this is not the case with your space. To some extent, you have total control of the physical space Read more…
November 24, 2018
More than a marketing demographic. You have critical thought. You’re unpredictable. You embody a spectrum of rich and complex characteristics. You cannot be simplified. You cannot be manipulated to buy a bunch of crap. You’re not a toddler who needs a binky. Pages from my old fanzine remind me that Read more…
