Have you ever felt the intangible? I have. And each time I’ve experienced it, I can tell you exactly where it starts. It starts in my chest. It sometimes leads to shortness of breath, and sometimes it leads to a lump in the throat. Sometimes it ma…

Waking at 3am to make sure there’s ample time for primping, packing and to do an idiot check before high-tailing it to the airport can make for a long day. Once there, I was greeted by a gargantuan Terminal 1 security line which almost stretched d…

There’s nothing like deciding to go with a carry-on bag to make you question every item you’ve packed. Being a luggage-checking kind of gal, mostly because of my penchant for traveling with full-sized bottles of hair product, I decided to not do t…

He smelled like a warm, melted Andes mint. Or maybe like hot cocoa with a splash of crème de menthe. Either way, it was interesting. And odd. Oddly interesting. His arm held the elevator open for me, and I got inside. I noticed his parched, scragg…

Yesterday I wrote about the perceived shame associated with being a flip-phone carrying member of society. But I also mentioned that for as much as my phone isn’t able to do, it gives that much back to me in terms of feeling like I’m not attached …

Since I had to post from Facebook last night in the wake of the plethora of site issues dogging Posterous, here’s the one from yesterday. Gotta keep the actual blog populated whenever the window of opportunity opens, ya dig? *** A few weeks back, …

There are a lot of things that divide us — not only as a country, but as a world. Political beliefs. Religious beliefs. Human rights, animal rights and God-given rights. Money, love, sex, power. Area code, eye color, hair color, ethnicity. Educat…

This is my 200th consecutive day of blogging. Whew. Two hundred days ago it was a new year. Change seemed to be on the horizon, and sure enough, change came. The new year brought a new engagement. Two, in fact. My best friend began planning her we…

I have travel on the brain. Not just any travel, but serious travel. Travel planned out for the next nine years. Travel based on lists I’ve made before, travel that’s based on pictures in my mind of places that I know exist. Travel that I won’t re…

I drove down to Newport Beach during lunch today to run an errand. Cruising PCH, it was beyond obvious how wonderful this part of the country is, and how blessed I feel to live in it. I’m sure we all feel that way about our little corner of the wo…