Dark Sharp Girls 1: Discreet Malice

Celebrated author, Gillian Flynn, has given me some of the greatest reads and subsequently some of the greatest watches of my life. As an avid reader, that is saying A LOT….. David Fincher said something to the effect of “she’s that 13yo girl watching a movie with a bucket of popcorn. She writes like an audience…

What’s Love Got to Do with It? Part 2

In the first part of series, Love’s role in relationships was discussed. I do believe it’s an integral part but it’s not ALL. In this part I’d like to discuss Love’s role in work. Because believe it or not, it does play a part. Be it positive or negative, our motivation for doing things is…

What’s Love Got to Do With It? Part 1

Love is the biggest reason of all. It’s also the biggest cliché of all… those three words can be the purest form of expression or the biggest excuse in the world. Love can blind us or set us free, it can shackle us to our past or push us into a new life. But in…

Happy Birthday Gabriel!

I remember the day I took this picture. I had just begun to find our rhythm…. You were just over a month old. We’d laid in bed that morning cooing and I was staring at you thinking how much you had grown in the past month. Chiding myself for not taking many pictures, I readied…

The Value of a Teapot

  One of my earliest and sweetest associations of tea is my mother making us a cup to relax us and help us sleep. Most often it would be chamomile with a little milk and sugar. Once, when my brother was young, he caught a bad stomach virus. He was too young to take the…