Sitemap - 2023 - The Tea's Made

My 2024 word of the year is...Beans.

So-Slow Book Club, Week 2: "First birds" and the power of noticing

How to support writers in 2024

So-Slow Book Club Week 1: Winter's Consolations

Nordic wisdom for the coldest days of the year

On launching and longing

Announcing: An oh-so-slow book club.

Four handcrafted holiday projects

How to keep walking (outdoors), all winter long

The era of "doing for" my kids is winding down.

On messy French knots and my crummy Instagram brand

Writing about motherhood as childhood melts away

Why it's worth trying (again) to learn a new skill

My morning oatmeal, and what it's reminding me about the tyranny of too much information

What does the world need from us in a crisis?

My wild-woodsy-woman hair and what it says about who I'm becoming as I get older

Why "The Tea's Made"?

The antidote to an angry algorithm

The privilege of paying attention to my body

In defense of the lukewarm take

In celebration of bookstores

The way things always were is not the way they'll always be

What "being in the driver's seat" looks like now

The underrated importance of 'white space'

An ode to my refrigerator menu board

On developing a relationship with my aging face

Want to stop scrolling? Start doing.

My youngest just started high school, and my life as a "school-kid mom" has totally changed.

My complicated relationship with other people's complicated relationships with food

I found my biological grandfather. Now what?

Desperately seeking sisu: On family, resilience, and the desire to know where we come from

"My 20something is my roommate," and other things I never thought I'd say

Family history, genealogy, and the complicated concept of "cycle-breaking"

How to romanticize midlife

How a book proposal is made

How I'm trying to show my body love even when I don't like how it looks

Worrying about how I look is making me boring

Big ideas, human limitations, and the empty promises of automation and outsourcing

Parenting teens always feels a hot stove

Is it possible to live simply in midlife?

Hey, Hun: my multiple MLM failures and "what it takes" to succeed in multi-level marketing

Reinventing my relationship with food in midlife

On (not) taking my new husband's name...

What the fridge door says about family

My second-chance midlife wedding

Occupation: Writer

All the emotions I felt while watching Michael J. Fox's "Still"

We're still here