The winery I work for part-time doing estate tastings and sales also has a 40 acre farm on one of the mountains in north Napa Valley. After a bunch of us at the winery took an official tour of the farm this past summer, I expressed an interest to the…

When work wakes me up in the middle of the night, I know exactly what will settle my brain and put me right back into dreamland…David Attenborough. If you don’t know Sir David Attenborough, you really should take the time. I have no idea what he did as a young…

A little over a year ago, I blew up my life. I was in a rebound relationship with a very nice guy, who I haven’t introduced but should. Let’s call him Mechanic. I’ll tell his story another time. That summer I was still so depressed after having broken up with…

When this statement solidified for me mid-way through my pity-party, break-up year after PhD, it was so powerful it shot me lightyears ahead in my progress toward moving on and rebuilding my life. It gave me my power back. I choose how I feel about what other people do around…

Remember the scene in Princess Bride when Wesley and Buttercup are walking through the Fire Swamp and he tells the story of how he became the Dread Pirate Roberts? The then Dread Pirate Roberts takes Wesley on as a valet and every night says: “Good night, Wesley. Good work. Sleep…

Over the last seven years I’ve developed what I call <insert my real name here>-isms — long thought over, sometimes painfully learned, life lessons distilled into a mantra I consider and try to live by as I move through life. …

My oldest niece recently turned 25. After the HBD texts on her birthday, I waited a few weeks to check in on how she was feeling. Twenty five was a particularly difficult birthday for me. I feel a little silly looking back at my 25th birthday now 21 years later…

Originally posted on my blog — LemonThatsDifferent.com — November 22, 2016 I’ve been single for the past six weeks now — a status I haven’t had since I was 19. Like pretty much all middle class, educated white girls from the burbs I thought a monogamous relationship was the thing…