Home-cooked meals, served up with sides of love, laughter and a sense of community, nourish both body and spirit Now that life has begun to resume some semblance of normalcy, the opportunity to gather and cook for family and friends is a real possibility again. However, the rules for interacting…

3 Tips For Healthier Holiday Hangouts As life slowly begins to resume some semblance of normalcy, the opportunity to cook for family and friends may again be an option. Consider these tips for healthier holiday hangouts! HEAD OUTDOORS — If restaurants can pivot to outdoor dining, why not the rest…

Feeding body and spirit — Few people have experience in planning a major holiday during a global pandemic. Quarantining yourself with immediate family and haven’t cooked an entire turkey dinner by yourself before? Alone at Thanksgiving this year? What will be different in this era of social distancing, hand sanitizing, and mask wearing? You’re not…

Virtual hugs and air kisses, unexpected blessings, and micro-gratitude moments — Dear <Firstname>, I started this holiday newsletter in August, which seemed like it should have been the end of the year already, or in case I didn’t survive the Quarendemicopalypse. Hope this finds you as well as can be expected considering the new unprecedented normal challenging times we are facing…

The road ahead is long. The climb is steep. But still, I have the audacity to hope. — Every day seems to bring a new Covid record, a climate disaster, or a heartbreaking injustice. But I remember a time of hope. In 2008, I wrote about a prescient poem by a high school senior in Honolulu, Hawai’i. If we have learned anything from Greta Thunberg and K-pop stans…

Because real life is messy, it hurts, and sometimes you get stuck with the rotten apple Beginning in May 2020, protests began rocking not just the United States, but over a dozen countries worldwide. Black or blue, red or white, yellow or purple — we have so much to learn…

What I learned on my third try at starting my own business This is a post from a member of the Freelancers Union community sharing expertise or advice to help out fellow freelancers. This post has been edited. But really — what’s stopping you from starting your own business? That…