Happier Labor Day: “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ~Dolly Parton🌈🦋✨

I've got a lot to think about this Labor Day. In 2019, I started a tradition inspired by Gretchen Rubin to annually craft a word or short phrase to serve as a north star in my work life. Usually I simply microblog it to my Quiche socials, however, this year there's really a lot going … Continue reading Happier Labor Day: “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.” ~Dolly Parton🌈🦋✨

Summer is Here☀️😎

I love it when you have those moments of sudden, visceral awareness that the season has changed, especially growing up in California where those changes can be subtle. Walking out into a certain crisp coolness that signals fall, the cold, clammy rain of winter, emerging greenery and warmer temperatures showcasing spring, summer hit me early … Continue reading Summer is Here☀️😎

White People Food

I think a lot about the intersection of food and the socially constructed ideas we have about it. That’s not directly the purpose of my post here, just setting some context. And full disclosure, as the great wordsmith Weird Al Yankovich declared, “I’m nerdy in the extreme and whiter than sour cream.” With ancestry hailing … Continue reading White People Food

Back to School

If you had told me in my twenties that in my forties I’d be going back to community college and applying for work as a lunch lady, I’d be lying if I said I wouldn’t be pretty soul crushed. Yet here I am. To be fair, if you’d also told me in my twenties that … Continue reading Back to School