I wear many hats.

None of which are fabulous as the hats worn during the Royal Wedding.

My hats are of the more mundane kind. My hats tend to describe what I do and not necessarily who am I. I’m a writer, a vegan, a friend, a wife (blech, even after 2 years I mildly hate that term!), a weirdo (see previous parentheses), a cook, a yogi, a pug mama, a California girl at heart, a Red Sox fan, a coffee lover, a book reader, a blog stalker, and an onion hater, just to name a few.

All of my hats can easily get tangled up, stacked one upon another. And it can be confusing, especially when you have to switch hats in the middle of the day and the new hat SO does not go with your outfit. Continue reading »

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There’s one meal that reminds of high school: a chicken salad bagel sandwich with a gigundo iced coffee from our town’s local hangout….errr…bagel shop. Don’t get me started on surviving high school in a town where the cool place to hang is a bagel shop. Despite our uncool status, we did have insane bagels and monster-sized sandwiches piled high with chicken salad and unlimited pickles, sprouts, cucumbers, tomatoes, and lettuce.

There was only one problem: the wait.

This bagel shop is quite possibly one of the slowest places on earth. Watch the paint dry/water boil slow. Yet people will wait 20, 30, 40 minutes for their bagel.

Unfortunately I wasn’t exactly born with the patience gene (my mom has been known to leave said bagel shop without bagels). Like many of us, I want what I want and I want it right now. My impatience isn’t just with long lines or slow sandwich-makers, but also with life. I may be alone, but I’m pretty sure adulthood’s hardest lesson is learning that not everything comes at once, even if you’ve followed the “perfect path” – college, grad school, living in sin, marriage, whatever. Continue reading »

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