Y’all. I deep dove this week into analysis on the big three Covid things: lockdowns, masks, and the vaccine. We’ll start with the latter: I’m not categorically against vaccines, so what’s bothering me so much about this one? This question led me to Dr. Sebastian Rushworth’s blog. He’s a young Swedish doctor with an incredible…
Sharing Joys | Feel Good Friday 012221
Like I wrote last week, it’s been incredible to share my friends’ joys. A couple I love—and set up :::pats self on back:::—got married! And it was storybook perfect, and I’m only happy jealous I didn’t get to be there for it. My trip to the mountains was, indeed, good for my soul. But of…
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Happy Inauguration Day. Appreciating Dr. Mercola’s Perspective on the Covid-19 Vaccine. Entertainment Sacks and the City podcast episode 21 One of the funniest poop stories I have ever heard in my entire life is told on a podcast I love but don’t listen to regularly, U Up? Podcast (~min 35). They also interview James Lafferty, my…
Running Away, or Soul-Stirring Happy | Feel Good Friday 011521
I woke up this morning in the mountains, and happy. I wrote this post on Thursday intending to publish it on Friday, but alas! A Friday afternoon wander around Aspen followed by homemade crab leg dinner foiled those plans. Let us confess: on Tuesday of this week, I had an absolute breakdown. I felt rejected…
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O rly? Lockdowns are scientifically ineffective. And have disastrous economic ramifications. There are all sorts of things to care about right now. One that feels “smaller” in significance compared to, well, anything else in our dumpster fire country is Austin’s banned camping ban (double negative: homeless or really any people can currently camp wherever they…
Tuesday! | Feel Good Friday 010821
Tuesday was a great day. Last weekend was great. Moving the trip I had planned for this week to next week was great plan. This week was great. MY week was great. Lots of things happened in the world to make me frustrated with our government, country, and society (as defined by social mores). I…
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It seems weird to publish this scheduled post now, as we watch an unprecedented event take place at the Capitol. But perhaps there isn’t a more poignant time to suggest that you read this awesome analysis of why “Being Woke” is as divisive as racism itself. “We live different lives, we have different views. It’s…
Current Fave Sunscreen: Supergoop!
Just letting y’all know that I’ve switched my face sunscreen to a tinted one because I literally cannot remember the last time I put makeup on my face but I do like a little smoothing of the skin tone. <<Supergoop! enters the chat>> Supergoop! has long been my favorite spray body sunscreen, with its very…
2021 is the Year of Grace
The day after I published last year’s word, my world was turned upside down. Confidence? A painfully ironic word. But like all things do, this DID turn into a year of confidence, where I was tested well beyond my perceived limits and emerged stronger, happier, and more at peace with myself. Confidence indeed. As I…
Mixed Up | Feel Good Thursday 123120
It was either two posts tomorrow or a FGT, so why not mix it up in a mixed up year?! These Feel Good Friday gratitude lists are intended to cover the previous week only, but on this last day of 2020 it’s hard not to use it as a reflection point for an entire year.…