I’m standing on a terrace overlooking a calm blue ocean. Palms trees sway in the ocean breeze that is kissing my cheeks and kicking up the ends of my hair. I stare up at the sky with tears streaming down my face. This is unfamiliar territory. Every time my heart aches now, I think “this is a hole I will have for the rest of my life.” It’s a helpless feeling to think that the pain I feel will never change. It’s humbling. I tried to escape it, but it still found me. Even on the terr[...]
October 9, 2019 This is a photo of me outside of the restaurant I inherited from my dad. I haven’t talked about it at all because I’ve felt so incredibly incompetent. Yes, I've studied business and worked in marketing, but I know NOTHING about what it takes to run a restaurant. Literally nothing. I, somehow, never had the typical "coming of age" job of working a waitress like everyone else. The only time I ever step inside a restaurant is to eat. And now I am respo[...]
Written April 17, 2018 Tonight I had dinner with one of my lovely friends at this DELICIOUS Pizza place in NoHo (That's short for North Hollywood). I was super stoked when I found out they had a vegan pizza option... The last time I had pizza it really hurt my stomach.Anyway, as we were sitting out on the patio with glasses of wine in our hand and suddenly the phrase "self-care" came up. Galit said, "I feel more feminine lately when I'm doing a little bit of self-care, like this week I went to get[...]
Tonight I met up with my friend Galit to do some work. I’ve been really excited lately about writing my new book, Letters to My Little Sisters. I started doing IG Live conversations to work through some of the topics I want to write about, and even created an email thingy that people can sign up for to get updates on it. Today my goal was to import all of the email addresses I’ve received from the questionnaire onto MailChimp, which means I have to sort through each entry, grab the email & enter[...]
Self Timer Photo of me Exploring Malahide, Ireland alone.One of my favorite things about Facebook is that it brings back memories. It shows you old posts from years ago and I think that is so fun - especially because I have a horrible memory.But lately looking back at Facebook memories has been really hard.I keep seeing photos of me smiling and doing fun things but when I look at myself, standing in the photo, I know exactly what was going on under that.This time 2 years ago I was struggling. Still. I was mak[...]
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