Reinvention

You just never know where the open road will take you. But sometimes you simply have to take the road less traveled…or the bus! I mean this quite literally. Last week I was all “fancy” and chatting it up with my old friend (haha) designer Bob...

"It’s odd when I think of the arc of my life, from child to young woman to aging adult. First I was who I was. Then I didn’t know who I was. Then I invented someone, and became her. Then I began to like what...

I can’t wait for tonight—pj’s on and clicker in hand I will be watching the HBO documentary Everything is Copy. It is the story about one of my super heroes...

What am I doing for dinner tonight? It’s a question I often ask myself. I try not to think about it until 4 o’clock. Sometimes referred to as the bewitching hour. The un-doing of the day. I like to call it “empty nest dinner syndrome.” It’s...

The IOWA campaign caucus millennial experience (aka me as a Caucus Fellow) was profoundly summed up on the long snowy drive from Davenport to my home in Chicago. I love XM Radio—what is better than three hours of 70’s music when you know the words...

The energy is building with the Iowa Caucus only three days away! Today Hillary will be joined by Bill and Chelsea to say thank you to the scores of volunteers canvassing across the State. It will be positively electric. Going door to door, talking to citizens...

I am a bit lonely on the road in Iowa—-it seems like there are so many miles between here and home. As I was lost (again) today, driving to a remote part of Davenport, I laughed when I passed a Highway 280 sign…Des Moines to the...

When I first told an old friend of mine and former Bill Clinton staffer that I was coming to Iowa to work for Hillary he said, “It’s not glamorous.” This could be the understatement of the year. In fact, I have found sleeping in my...

I gave up on New Year’s resolutions many years ago. After enough failed attempts, my realistic “thinking self” came to terms with the fact that giving up closet smoking and eating Swedish Fish was not likely to last past mid-January. In this new year, I have...

  Happy New Year. I am certain I am not alone this week thinking about what 2016 will look like. Or, equally pressing question…where the hell did 2015 go? Where to begin? Funny how it seems I have come almost full circle. I spent much of 2015 packing,...