by Bettina | Sep 11, 2026 | Food recipes
My sister has two school-age kids and a job that starts at eight, and every September she texts me the same slightly desperate question: what do I actually put in the lunchbox? After a few years of helping her troubleshoot soggy sandwiches and lunches that came home...
by Bettina | Sep 10, 2026 | Fashion and style
There’s a specific kind of fall morning that used to defeat me completely: 48 degrees when I leave the house, 68 by lunch, and a cold wind that makes a liar out of the sunshine. For years I’d either freeze all morning or roast all afternoon, hauling a...
by Bettina | Sep 8, 2026 | Self-care tips
I used to roll my eyes at affirmations. The idea of standing in front of a mirror telling myself I was confident felt like lying to my own face, and my brain knew it. What changed my mind wasn’t a self-help book. It was noticing, one ordinary week, how...
by Bettina | Sep 6, 2026 | Astrology
My closest friend is a Virgo, and for years I completely misread her. I took her quietness for aloofness and her habit of fixing things for fussiness. Until the week my life fell apart and she showed up with a stocked fridge, a colour-coded plan, and zero fuss....
by Bettina | Sep 5, 2026 | Fashion and style
I figured out my fall color palette the hard way — by standing in front of a closet full of clothes that technically “matched” and feeling like none of it looked right. Everything was black, grey, and one hopeful mustard sweater I never actually wore. So a...
