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Emotion Board

I went through a traumatic life change recently, which ended up being a blessing. Like Mary Oliver says…. Someone I loved once gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift. “The Uses of Sorrow,” Mary Oliver In the months (and months!) of therapy thatContinue reading “Emotion Board”

SFO Botanical Garden Photos

A couple weekends ago, I escaped the heat and wildfire smoke with a group of girlfriends. We spent a deliciously cool couple of days in SFO’s Japantown, staying at the Kabuki and getting a year’s worth of dead skin cells scrubbed off across the street at Pearl Spa. Appetite piqued, we ambled through Japan CenterContinue reading “SFO Botanical Garden Photos”