Category Archives: Love Yourself
Littlest Lullaby, you go ahead and name it when you’re ready.
Self love is a concept more tangled to me than the mess of Christmas lights now harbored up in my attic for another 300 or so days. I’ve struggled with it. A lot. And every time another letter request comes … Continue reading
Filed under Love Letters, Love Yourself
We can plant a box in the middle of town and, on days when we are feeling lovely, we could pour the loveliness in.
Thought I was writing this letter for a girl in Starbucks after I could not help but eavesdrop on her phone conversation… She walked out and I just sat there, staring at the words I wrote to her. The letters … Continue reading
Filed under Beauty, Love Yourself
Kaleidoscope Lifetimes: 9/11. We Remember.
I spent precisely 73 minutes, curled up on the tile floor of the New York Library-Bronx Branch, crying yesterday. Book Propped In Front Of Me. Knees Folded. Pages Playing Tear Catchers. I half expected a librarian to approach me, befuddled … Continue reading
Filed under For a Better World, Life Lessons, Love Yourself, The Tough Stuff, Tragedy
To a woman who leaves a trail of adoration wherever she goes like the glitter upon greeting cards that always ends up on your Fingers. Your Dress. Your Face. Your Notebooks. Your Collar. Your Lap.
Sashay. The word is sashay. It might be the only word in all of the dictionary brave enough to take on her way of walking. The only word without knocking knees when it comes to embodying enough potential to describe … Continue reading
Filed under Happiness, Live with intention, Love Is..., Love Yourself, Thank You, Uncategorized, Women
A guru at equipping souls with a Simultaneous Sense of Eating, Praying & Loving, once wrote that we cannot expect to win the lottery if we don’t first buy the ticket.
I spent two years stealing love notes from my brother’s bedroom just to admire the handwriting styles of his girlfriend. I may or may not have contemplated stapling the letters to my trendy Unicorn sweaters of the time and wearing them around with … Continue reading
Filed under Big Dreams, For a Better World, Love Yourself, Reality, Uncategorized
Dear 2011, We have our Bright Yellow Knickers on and we are coming right at ya….
It would be too simple to cast the blame on my mother for this holiday season’s most embarrassing moment. Far Too Simple. So I am opting to blame Venezuela instead. That’s right, Venezuela. I’m not so fooled by you, sitting so … Continue reading
Filed under Holidays, Humanity, Life Lessons, Love Yourself, Simply Living
One day I will be able to say to my Little Ones: “This is how your Mommy came to write 207 Love Letters to 207 Strangers”
We sat in over-sized Alice chairs admiring the spouts of our teapots, appropriately short and stout, as they poured a sweet elixir into the bottom of our antique cups. We clinked our tea cups together and we made a toast. … Continue reading
Filed under Humanity, Life Lessons, Loneliness, Love Letters, Love Yourself, Thank You, Uncategorized
Sara Bareilles would not write you a love song but I want to write you a love letter… Seriously.
It really is no wonder why Nicholas Sparks seems to have reserved seating when it comes to the New York Times Best Seller Lists. The man has found a fruit that most cannot ignore and he wrings out the sweet … Continue reading
Filed under Love Is..., Love Letters, Love Yourself, Simply Living, Thank You
I am attempting to love the whole world and it is harder than I anticipated.
Tears crowd the corner of my eyes as I practice saying it in my head. “I love you,” I want to tell him. I want to sit right next to him, hold his hand, and tell him that I love … Continue reading
Filed under For a Better World, Life Lessons, Love Yourself
‘Thank you’ is the very best phrase in the world: Sunday Morning Pearls from a Pile of Preschoolers.
It was the first, but the best, green pentagon and red square sandwich that I will ever eat. Blue American Cheese. Yellow Oval Ham… “Thank you!” I said, after each shape she placed into my hands. A pile toppling over … Continue reading
Filed under Life Lessons, Love Yourself
