Brainshambles

Call me vain, but nothing cures a rainy day quite like a fresh dose of blonde at the salon. So refreshing. Back to mama duty…

After a truly long and tumultuous week, I came home to my adorable and fast-growing baby girls. Little Miss Paige, who has been making serious progress in the crawling department, has sprouted a little jagged tooth! I was so tickled to be the first to discover her little tooth. Poor girl was quite unhappy. Funny, [...]

I haven’t written with much substance lately. My first instinct is to apologize and beg forgiveness from my readers and self. But I have grown quite tired of offering unwarranted apologies these past few months. A hard habit to break. But truly, why are we often so compelled to confess sins of self-truth? What does [...]

“Sometimes there’s so much beauty in the world I feel like I can’t take it, like my heart’s going to cave in.”

In 2011 I had twin baby girls. I gained 50 pounds and lost 55. I learned about all sorts of new elements of my personality that I didn’t know existed. My life was tested. Until the very last second. I attended a funeral on New Year’s Eve. I chose to speak up when I might [...]

Take pictures of yourself talking in to a banana phone (while trying to entertain babies in your living room and working). Post them on your blog. This exercise will help you successfully put off email and report updates, as well as wake/funeral preparation for at least 10 more minutes.

My mind is like a heavy hand Always making more of what really happened A critical imagination always working over time Maybe this is what the world will see A tiny little version of the tallest tree An optical illusion of the human mind Posing as a real life I never had my mind made [...]

In another life, I’d be photographed by Mario Testino or Annie Leibovitz. Fantastical fabric draped across a delicate canvas, people would pay to paint their stories on me. And I’d let all my colors reach through the lens, share my light with the world. Wouldn’t that be a fun fact to share with my daughters [...]