How Plant a Kiss Day Saved My Life

This past week was the Plant a Kiss Day Celebration, in which nearly 20 women bloggers, and dozens of fourth grade girls all created something separately out in the world to bring a little magic, joy, poetry, color, and connection in unexpected ways. It was such...

Plant a Kiss Day Bubble Flash Mob!

Monday, April 29 was the 2nd Annual Plant a Kiss Day. In the spirit of Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s work,18 bloggers set out to “Plant a Kiss” in the world on April 29. We each did something we thought would spread a little extra joy, color, connection,...

Life’s too short to wear beige panties…

SIMPLY CELEBRATE NEWSLETTER    JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2013 If you know me at all, you’ve heard me say — maybe ad nauseam — “there is so much more to Simply Celebrate than oom-pah-pah and party pinatas; it’s about a deeper, more radical, unexpected...

It’s all once-in-a-lifetime, baby!

If you've been following my blog, you know that my dear friend, Maya Stein, is on a journey of lifetime, called Type Rider. She's traveling by bicycle from Amherst to Milwaukee, trailing a vintage blue typewriter behind her. Every day she visits a new town and...

Been there; done that? (No siree!)

I want to tell you something I'm really jazzed about. But this comes with a warning: be aware of the "been-there-done-that" squirrel chatter that will probably arise. I've been watching lately how that ole chuttering in my head (chatter + muttering)...

Get Outta Your Smarty-pants Head!

A couple weeks ago I told you about an upcoming writing class that my friend, Laurie Wagner, is launching. The online class is called Telling True Stories and it is about what happens when we "get out of our smarty pants heads" and tell our stories in true,...