It’s true that we can all probably watch TedTalks and motivational videos and read personal growth and self-help books until we have that A-HA moment and IN that moment, feel as if we’re changed forever… WE GET LIFE and we’re thriving. Then a few days later, we’ve forgotten all that we have learned and are …
This interview with Jamie Lee Curtis popped up in my inbox the other day and I had to share. I know I have a really diverse group of women who stop by here to read this blog – HI 🙂 …from teens and twenty-somethings to women in their 50’s, ’60’s, and ’70s and beyond, and …
I know it’s still technically summer, and I’m generally not one to rush into the colder months, but it felt like fall today in a way that sort of reassured me that everything is falling into place… well, hopefully. I guess we have to accept that life has a certain uncertainty and uncontrollable chaos where …
A slightly awkward photo of us preparing 50 shots of Jameson for a few very generous patrons 🙂 L O V E C A T S! I just want to thank all of you who have reached out to me commenting, emailing, DMing me, telling me how my blog and writing about my life’s journey …
L O V E C A T S …Hello! It’s been a hundred years, well a few weeks anyway, and the longest accidental break I’ve taken from this space since I began blogging over ten years ago now. It’s crazy that I’ve been here in this space for so long, before social media really even …
Now that Dogwood Tavern is finally open (THANK THE GOOD LORD) I can give you little insight into the renovation process, and I’m beginning with the restrooms. Why you ask? Because it’s the easiest place to start 🙂 We signed the lease on the building and it was finalized around November 2016 and by December, …
I didn’t get a chance to blog all last week, and it drove me insane. Every day I thought about all the things I wasn’t accomplishing instead of seeing exactly what I was, and that’s never a positive place to be, mindfully speaking. If I’m going to be able to make both careers work, I …
We quietly opened our doors last Saturday night and Dogwood Tavern quickly went from the space we’ve been renovating for over a year, causing so much stress we could barely manage to see straight, to a place that was alive and full of happy people and music and I couldn’t stop smiling all night long …
above: just after a bath, swaddled in towels From the time we signed the lease on the building that would become Dogwood Tavern, we knew we had some little friends living among us – which we may or may not have possibly mistaken for ghosts 😉 The building had been abandoned for about four years, …
I stumbled upon this Ted Talk How to Be Happy Every Day: It Will Change the World by Jacqueline Way the other day and was completely inspired by it. Jacqueline Way is the founder of www.356give.ca, a charitable organization dedicated to educating, empowering, and inspiring children to change the world “one give, one day at …
Everything that you re going through is preparing you for what you asked for. Wow. I mean… wow. This quote really blew my mind. Sure, it’s saying the same exact thing I’ve heard and read a million times before, but I’ve never seen it in these exact words. AND these exact words in this exact …
I started talking about my fertility and subsequent INfertility journey right here on this blog about ten years ago – before I even knew I was actually talking about it. It began with what I thought was going to be a routine checkup by a new doctor back in April 2007 (4 months before I …
I had hoped to get this post up on Monday and to include it in my #MondayMotivation series to start the year off with a great motivated BANG! But alas, it did not happen, and now that it’s Wednesday, I’m clearly judging myself for it and hoping that it’s not going to determine how this …
Merry Christmas Lovecats! Even though this year has been one of the most challenging and difficult times in my entire life, I feel so blessed every day to get snuggles from these two Bobes and to get to wake up and do what I love, and that’s because of ALL OF YOU! I’m so grateful …
Last year around this time, my partners and I acquired the building that is in the process of becoming Dogwood Tavern. While we had planned on doing a sort of quickie fix-it to open early 2017, it turned into a full-blown renovation. Much of the structure has remained the same, but the entire place has …
