Thoughts from a pessimistic optimist and empty-nester. This is not the place for you if any of your feeds describe you as “pulled together or perfectionist.” A true believer that the right shoes and jeans can make most bad days better.
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Things I Told ChatGPT Instead of a Therapist
Early August 2025:
My only daughter, my third child, my baby, left for college last August. In the weeks leading up to her departure, I felt like I was dying. It was grief. Raw, real, scary. My eyes and lips started twitching. I became eve...
Raging at the Empty Nest
When my kids left for school I expected the sadness. I didn't expect the anger.
I was angry when my last child went to college. Sad, yes, of course. But also mad. Pissed. At myself. I’d spent twenty years listening to the warnings. “Be car...
When Life Hands You Lemons, Buy Stripes
I love summer. This summer has been a bit of a bust. Lots of reasons; it's just one of those it is what it is seasons. But one thing about me is that I get up every day and try to keep moving.
And I shop. It’s not deep. It’s not saving th...
The Rare Clothes That Live Up To the Hype
I’m utterly convinced that there is a version of me in an alternate universe who lives in Los Angeles. How else to explain the strange draw to the Hollywood Hills every time our plane lands? Or the deja vu I feel driving down the PCH. We ha...
So You Don't Know What to Wear
August. Just the word feels melancholy. The way the sun lands on the street and that funny angle that says, “I’m here, but not for long.” I love summer. I am not a fan of winter. But the clothes we wear at the end of August and beginning of...
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This is for women who are curious, a little unraveled, and deeply uninterested in pretending they have it all together. Sober 18 years. Married to a neurosurgeon (I do not excel at this part). I write about trauma, healing, shame and denim.
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