Currently Drinking: Stella Rosa Black

I know: It’s been a long time – I shouldn’t have left you without a dope beat to step to. My bad! I’ve been busy traversing through life on excrement kayaking trips, experimenting with various apparatuses, trying to navigate the turbulent terrain. Translation? I’ve been up Shit’s Creek trying to find a paddle.

A lot has changed and much of it happened very quickly: friends, family, jobs, presidents, economies… At the time of my last post, I had just turned 32 and I was still farting rainbows after sun showers. But life humbled me: I was laid off, then my mom died. In the few weeks after her death, my marriage was in turmoil, I was fighting with family, losing friends, and struggling financially. I had to do lot of pivoting and when I came out on the other side, I found I needed to evolve if I wanted to survive.

I’m going to be honest: you’re going to feel that for a bit. At the inception of this blog, I was writing from a place where YOU were the “dummie” and I was the guide. Looking back, I can see that we’re all a dummie to something! Everything exists on a spectrum and resolutions are a bit more nuanced. So if you’ll bare with me, I think we’ll find this new middle ground to be comfortably palatable.

Tonight’s advice? Grab a glass, enjoy a beverage (maybe it’s wine or scotch, but maybe it’s room temp water), and celebrate the you that is where you are right now! Even if you’re not where you want to be, you’re better off than you could be. Take a moment to bask in that – and welcome back!