If they've got the land, then I've got the view.

Melbourne may be my favorite spot here in Florida. When you sleep with the hotel door open to the sounds of the ocean, and wake up to this in the morning, you realize just how beautiful life can be.

The Lumineers - Slow It Down

Bringing me back. Repeat style. Over and over again.

Tiny Desk Concert

On better terms since Birmingham? 

Strange how that certain song seems to find you, with a video in tow, none the less. 


"Making something out of nothing with a scratcher and our hope
With two old guitars like a shovel and a rope"

Break-Science

Flash-dance-sister-pants and I were the actual....  last people to show up at the Depeche Mode show last weekend. 

Being over a hour late to her favorite band slowed neither of us down.  

That sister-pants of mine conducted a mean drum solo during the Depeche Mode show, she was right-on-Q with every single drum snare echoing the stadium last Saturday night.  Dancing along to her "air drum solo" occupied most of stellar dance-moves. There's a reason we're called "The Science Sisters" she brings the beat, and I bring the dance. 

"IN CASE OF EMERGENCY.... BREAK DANCE!" 

Uh, hello?

         To my mother’s defense she really can’t be to blame, when last night her response of “Tiffany… who?”  Was admitted to my stepfather when she asked him who he was on the phone with. This may seem like an odd reaction from a mother, when hearing the arrival of her own child’s name, upon investigation of a phone conversation her spouse is having in another room.

From my perspective I ask this same very question daily “Tiffany … who?”  I personally believe within the core of human beings lays an “underwriter” collaborating in sorts to create a readied individual to face each day and to better tell our stories at each days end.  I for one have multiple “under-writers” co-existing within.

A select few may refer to my “underwriter” theory as a set of symptoms (multiple, personality, disorder, maybe?) For now that’s irrelevant because they’re not the ones composing this psychoanalysis, “Dorothy” is. (that's one of my underwriters)

I don’t think my mother ever really got to know “Dorothy” and honestly struggles to know the creature she actually had the power of naming; Tiffany. Then again I don’t phone home to Alabama as much as I should, and my mother may be one of those select few viewing our inner collaborations as a set of symptoms. So in her viewpoint, there was ‘no tellin’ who my step-dad was talking to on the phone last night.  

Coexist Tour

Even the Boss Lady takes some time to smell the ocean.... 

Manifesta To Young Women and Girls

HERE'S WHAT YOU WILL BE TOLD:

"Find a man

Seek protection

The world is scary

Don't go out

You are weak

Don't care so much

They're only animals

Don't be so intense

Don't cry so much

You can't trust anyone

Don't talk to strangers

People will take advantage of you

Girls aren't good with:

Numbers

Facts

Making difficult decisions

Lifting things

Putting things together

International news

Flying planes

Being in charge.

Don't travel alone

You are nothing without a man

Don't make the first move,

wait for him to notice you

Don't be too loud

Follow the crowd

Obey the laws

Don't know too much

Tone it down

Find someone rich

It's how you look that matters,

not what you think.

HERE'S WHAT I'M TELLING YOU:

Everyone's making everything up

There is no one in charge except for those

who pretend to be

No one is coming

No one is going to

Rescue you

Mind-read your needs

Know your body better than you

Always fight back

Ask for it

Say what you want

Cherish your solitude

Take trains by yourself to places

you have never been

Sleep out alone under the stars

Learn how to drive a stick shift

Go so far away that you stop being afraid of 

not coming back

Say no when you don't want to do something

Say yes if your instincts are strong

even if everyone around you disagrees

Decide whether you want to be liked or admired

Decide if fitting in is more important than finding out

what you're doing here

Believe in kissing

Fight for tenderness

Care as much as you do

Cry as much as you want

Insist the world be theater

and love the drama

Take your time

Move as fast as you do

as long as it's your speed."- Eve Ensler