The Beautiful Butterflies of a Changing World Well, I recently saw something that made me feel as though I’d stepped straight out of The Jetsons and landed somewhere over the rainbow. A flying car! An actual flying car! Lions, tigers, and flying cars… oh my! Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore. And perhaps Elon Musk is the Wizard of Oz after all. 😂 Now, whether flying cars become part of our everyday lives in two years, five years, or considerably longer remains to b

On boundaries, new beginnings, ordinary days, and the lovely freedom to choose how we live. Someone might tell you that today can be just like any other day. But can it? Today isn't yesterday. It isn't tomorrow. And no matter how ordinary it may seem, it will never be exactly like any other day. Today is today. It is its own little piece of your life, complete with possibilities you haven't discovered, conversations you haven't had, and perhaps a few lessons you weren't parti

On family, love, sex, solitude, boundaries, and the lovely freedom of changing your mind. I've been thinking a lot lately. About family. Relationships. Being alone. Sex. Travel. Love. The world we live in, how much it has changed, and how much I have changed right along with it. And I keep coming back to one thought: I am not the same woman I was two years ago. Much less five, ten, fifteen, or twenty years ago. And thank goodness for that. Of course, there are parts of me tha

You can love people with your whole heart without making your entire existence revolve around them. You can be generous with your love and still be generous with yourself.

We like to think of growth as a straight line. We imagine that as we spend years working on ourselves, processing past hardships, healing from life's challenges and health issues, learning better boundaries, and quietly building our inner strength, we eventually become somewhat bulletproof. We tell ourselves that the stronger and wiser we become, the less likely we are to be misled. It is a comforting thought. But lately, my evening deep-dives into human behavior have made me

What vitamin B3 can teach us about heart health—and being willing to change our minds I have always believed that taking care of ourselves means being willing to learn. Sometimes that means adding something helpful. Sometimes it means reconsidering something we have been doing for years. Niacin is a lovely example of why that willingness matters. For decades, niacin was used to improve cholesterol levels. It could raise HDL, often called “good” cholesterol, lower triglyceride

I have decided that my future AI Life Manager has a lovely European accent. I don't know exactly which country she is from. Somewhere sophisticated, obviously. She is calm, never frazzled, and apparently wakes up before I do. And someday, perhaps not nearly as far in the future as we think, I imagine beginning my morning something like this: Good morning. I hope you slept well. It looks like it will be a beautiful day. You have a fairly light afternoon, and the weather should

A few days ago, I was listening to Andrew Huberman and Joe Rogan talk, and a name kept coming up: Rick Rubin. Of course, I knew the name. Rick Rubin is a legendary music producer. What I didn’t really know was him—or, more accurately, the way he thinks. So I started reading and listening. And down the rabbit hole I went. What fascinated me wasn’t his extraordinary résumé or the famous people he has worked with. It was his openness. He seems genuinely interested in noticing th

Lisbon → Coimbra → Porto | November 15–27, 2026 Life has thrown me a few curveballs lately. My October travel plans changed. And changed again. And eventually disappeared altogether. Then there was April. I had planned another beautiful European adventure, but life changed, and I canceled it. Then, as life sometimes does, it changed again—and it turned out I could have kept those plans after all. But that's okay. Things change. Life does what life does. And sometimes the love

There are moments in life when we begin to feel a gentle tug. Not a loud voice. Not some dramatic sign from the universe. Just a quiet whisper that says... There might be more than this. Most of us know exactly what happens next. Fear arrives. It reminds us of everything we could lose. The paycheck. The relationship. The routine. The identity we've carefully built. The certainty of knowing what tomorrow looks like. And because fear is persuasive, we often convince ourselves t