09/16/2016
I mentioned earlier this week that Wednesday marked 5 years of blogging for me. FIVE YEARS. I won’t bore you with all of the details– I’ve talked about it here— but will just say I’m forever grateful that, at least for the moment, I get to have this job. What posts do you enjoy most? Which could you live without? Anything we aren’t doing that you’d like to see us do? Let me know in the comments below. As for weekend plans, my college bestie is flying in this weekend from Colorado, so we … 
I don’t know about you guys, but I await Gail’s book recommendations in the same way I await a coveted just-primed Amazon box. Her excitement for books is so completely contagious that I always find myself with at least three of her picks on my nightstand. Speaking of books on my nightstand, last week I attended my first book club and the book of the month was Sweetbitter. (I talked about my book club dreams earlier in the summer and was thrilled when they manifest themselves into an IRL invitation.) Have you guys read … 
Let’s talk about lunch shall we? Breakfast to me is easy. Oatmeal? Eggs? Toast with Almond Butter? Dinner I find to be pretty easy to plan for ahead of time making it pretty stress-free. Lunch on the other hand stumps me every time. I’m always looking for that magical trifecta in the center of the Vin Diagram where inexpensive, healthy, and fast line up and it’s usually a pretty elusive thing to pinpoint. When Deepika sent over the recipe for a toddler chicken veggie wrap, I felt immediately inspired and knew … 
Transitions are something I feel like I know a thing or two about these days. I go back and forth between feeling like I’m simultaneously in two places at once– my heart both in LA, a city I called home for a decade and here in Austin, the city that I’ve called home for the other 22 years of my life. September feels like a similar predicament. The weather still says summer, but the kids are back to school, the days are slowly getting shorter, and all other signs point to fall. I went a couple of months after we … 
