Food for all five senses
Though departures may occur all at once physically, they are rarely emotionally complete in that same instant. Instead, we leave places slowly, draining ourselves from them a bit at a time, as our hearts and our minds gradually lose their grip on whomever and whatever they leave behind. Geographies tend to imprint themselves on my […]
It’s been a strange year thus far, in that I’ve been so caught up in work that the things I typically tend to most anxiously—friendships, dating, exercise, staying current with The Good Wife—have fallen by the wayside. Which is not at all to say that I no longer care about these core elements of my […]
Hello, and welcome to the fresh faces around here, and the ones who’ve been around a while, too—I’m so glad you’re here and I can’t wait to get to know you. I’m a writer and photographer working to democratize wellness and empower womxn through storytelling, accessible practices for inner and outer nourishment, and revolutionary acts […]
This super quick, nutrient dense vegan mint chocolate hemp milk has quickly become a daily staple—it’s light, creamy, frothy, delicious, and full of plant-based protein. And mega green, from my favorite spirulina powder. The genius thing about making your own hemp milk is that it requires absolutely no prep: all you need is water, hemp […]
Summer, season of ripeness, maturation, spoiling, juice, overflow, heat. Almost gone. Summer, for me, has been a time of action, galvanizing, considering what’s most important and figuring out how I get from where I am now to there. Since 2016, and probably long before that November, even without realizing it, I spent a lot of […]
I grew up vegetarian. Mornings looked like spirulina-laden smoothies and yogurt bowls with tahini and papaya fresh from the trees outside. We were in Hawai’i after all, where fresh fruits and vegetables are plentiful. It’s natural to be veggie-forward when you can wander outside and graze on most of what you see. It’s natural to […]
I’ve been washing my face with raw honey for the past decade. It’s a self-care practice that completely changed my life and my skincare routine—it eliminated breakouts, irritation, and dry skin, and radically decreased the amount of money I was spending on facial cleansers, toners, and moisturizers. I first mentioned honey face washing two years […]
This time last week, I shipped a homemade bag of pre-blended dry cake ingredients to Maui (nota bene: some might call this a “cake mix”). I needed to make things as quick and easy as possible when I got off the plane for my dad’s eightieth birthday. One flight, two pre-cut 8-inch parchment cake-pan liners, […]
I know the feeling: You’ve got a hundred holiday cards to write and a grand total of zero gifts wrapped. You’re on a budget. And you’ve got no time. These five easy, beautiful, and supremely pure body and beauty DIYs to the rescue: Each of them can be wrapped with a simple ribbon and […]
This post was created in partnership with Truvía. All opinions are my own. How do you nourish yourself? Sure, I mean that a bit in regards to food, but also more, bigger, the full picture of nourishment. What restores you? Heals your heart? Keeps you going? I think about these questions a lot around this […]
Thunderstorms. The scent of rain on wide, apple-green leaves. Swimming pool chlorine. Fireworks. Fireflies. Family. I learned the midwest in mosaics of child wonder during the weeks we spent in Indiana every summer. My mother grew up in South Bend, daughter of the first female president of Temple Beth El, of the man who was […]
Some time last year, I saw a bright green pasta on my friend Lynn’s Instagram Stories from a food festival. It wasn’t green from spinach, as so many pastas are, but from spirulina—my absolute favorite superfood. I knew I had to have it. It took me a while to gear up to the audacity of […]