Year one, done! My husband and I celebrated our daughter's first birthday recently and it felt like such a huge accomplishment. The past 12 months have been incredible, exhausting, enlightening, overwhelming, and totally worth it. I wanted to create something to mark the milestone, so for the past few months I've been putting together something … Continue reading Introducing the New Parent Deck
To everyone out there doing their first Dry January...CONGRATS! You're over a week and a half in and I am so excited for you. There are a million reasons people choose to do a reset this month. The excess of the holidays. The start of a new calendar year. Wanting to try something different. I … Continue reading Volunteering in Early Sobriety
Hey friends! Is anyone feeling any holiday fatigue yet? 😉 Make sure you're taking downtime when you need it, saying a gentle 'No' if you need to rest and reset. I know this time of year can be particularly overwhelming for us between travel, family time, out of town visitors, birthday celebrations--all the things. As … Continue reading What I’m Looking forward to in 2019
Death Valley is one of the most special places I've ever been. The vast, strange, quiet history of the desert is expansive. Every time we've been for a day trip or overnight, I've come home feeling replenished and restored. Well...almost every time. This past visit there was the great "food poisoning of 2018" event...but that … Continue reading Scotty’s Castle Flood Recovery Tour at Death Valley National Park
Before I moved back home to Vegas from Chicago we used to come back once a year, usually around Easter for a week. I looked forward to that week of warm sunshine for months, cursing the chilly midwest short dark days. When we touched down in Vegas, it was a family tradition to head over … Continue reading Historical Vegas Mocktail collaboration with Culinary Historian & Author Sarah Lohman
A few weeks ago the folks of Wild & Free: A Battleborn Podcast were kind enough to let me join and talk a little bit about sobriety during the holidays, and if you'd like, you can listen here. I know my first holiday season sober was difficult, but these days it's something most of my … Continue reading How to be a sober inclusive holiday host
Hope everyone out there had a wonderful Thanksgiving! We had family visiting and hosted dinner potluck style at our house--it was fun to have everyone in our small living room together eating, talking, and playing games.I wanted to share this week, in case you had not already seen it, that the totally free 2019 Sober … Continue reading The 100% Free Sober in Vegas 2019 Calendar
Lately my feelings have been all over the place. Change in weather, getting ready for the holidays, getting ready for our daughter's first birthday. Reflecting on the past few months of so many things going on--the art show, events, travel, family obligations, work obligations. And I've been taking an emotional and spiritual temperature check. One … Continue reading Saying No…So I Can Say Yes
EDIT: As of 2019 The Book Store has closed its doors, but its memory lives on below! You all know how much I love a good book store...and with The Writer's Block doing renovations it's given me an opportunity to explore other places. In early sobriety going to a book store was one of the … Continue reading The Book Store
Recently I had something special happen--I got to record thoughts on being sober and becoming a mother with one of my oldest friends. My friend Leah hosts The Compass Podcast, a show dedicated to talking with creatives about navigating the waters between art and commerce, and what they do when they feel themselves going to the … Continue reading Sober Mamas talk on The Compass Podcast
Happy fall friends! Hope everyone has been enjoying this incredible weather the past few weeks. This is my favorite time here in Las Vegas...it's sunny, the air is crisp, light breeze. Just the best! I'm also starting to finally recover from a crazy few months...summer is my busy season at my day job, then hanging … Continue reading Toast Society
Fall is here! Fall is here! And it lasts about 4 weeks in Vegas...sometimes less. So you're maybe wondering how do I get out there and enjoy autumn in Vegas? Look no further than the Bristlecone Pine Loop! This trail offers scenic views, changing colors of the leaves, and varied terrain. About an hour outside … Continue reading Bristlecone Pine Loop & Hiking with a baby
