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Continue reading →: What happens when you take a wedding dress into a lavender fieldThere are certain privileges that come with a fresh set of corn rows, and one of them, we decided, was an excuse for a spontaneous road trip. So on a morning that offered no particular reason to stay put, my husband and I pointed the car north toward the Plateau…
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Continue reading →: The Revenge Omelette: A Lesson in French Patience
One of the things nobody tells you when you move to France is that some of the best recipes require something I spent most of my New York life avoiding: Patience. Tonight’s dinner is one of my favorite Provençal meals—an onion omelet. Now, if you’re imagining a quick weeknight omelet,…
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Continue reading →: the quittance de loyerThe French Document Every Expat Needs to Know About When people dream about moving abroad, they imagine vineyard sunsets, charming cafés, and the excitement of starting over. What they don’t imagine is paperwork. Yet sometimes a single piece of paper can determine whether you find housing, open doors, or find…
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Continue reading →: You find it only after you’re willing to go alone.The Reinvention Diaries The Loneliness of Starting Over We love to celebrate new beginnings. We talk about the excitement, the possibilities, and the glamour of transformation. We admire the mountaintop—the achievement, the breakthrough, the dream realized. But before you reach the mountaintop, you have to cross the valley. The valley…
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Continue reading →: Menopause, Motivation, and Midlife MarriageI’m beginning to understand why menopause can feel so destabilizing—and it has very little to do with gray hair, expanding waistlines, or changing skin. The most difficult changes have been the ones no one can see. It’s the exhaustion that settles into your bones. The brain fog that makes it…
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Continue reading →: Returning to My Roots:
A 15-Minute Yoga Practice for Hormonal Balance Last week was a reminder that the body speaks — loudly, if we’re not listening. Hormonal depression, mood swings, vertigo. The familiar and unwelcome cocktail of perimenopause doing what it does. This week I chose to respond rather than wait. I returned to…
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Continue reading →: I had absolutely no evidence that any of this would happen.I spent years learning to be thankful for things I couldn’t yet touch. A love I hadn’t met. A life I hadn’t built. A version of myself I had not yet become. Today, when I sit overlooking the vineyards of the South of France, married for the first time at…
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Continue reading →: Some Days Are Not For PerformingToday I found myself thinking about every woman I have ever judged for having low energy. I want to apologize to all of them. Especially now, when I am beginning to understand the sheer weight of hormonal shifts, physical discomfort, emotional exhaustion, and the invisible labor of simply trying to…
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Continue reading →: Things Shift During FlightA Woman of Leisure ep 5 One of the things nobody tells you about reinvention is that you will lose people. Not necessarily because anyone did anything wrong. Not because there’s a dramatic fallout. Not because someone becomes a villain in your story. Sometimes you lose people simply because things…
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Continue reading →: What NYC Taught Me About SurvivalFrom Graffiti-Covered Trains to Slow Living in Provence Yesterday I found myself revisiting memories of growing up in the Bronx during the early 1980s, and I’m still sitting with the imagery of it all — the color, the creativity, the grit, the contradiction of beauty and devastation existing side by…
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