September 9th, 2025
I have been sitting, closing my eyes, and really feeling into how it feels to be back in Italy. When I mean back, I mean way back, like DNA back, like grandfather back, like great-grandmother back, like great, great-grandmother back. Like Scorza back. Like Tarantino back. Like Fiorentino back. And it feels like wisdom. It […]
August 25th, 2025
Some days, the house is a mess, the gardens are a mess, I am a mess. It ain’t pretty around here. Maya is back at school in North Carolina, opening big, heavy doors to wisdom. Lucia is camping off the edge of a Colorado mountain lake. Jack is sitting quietly on a surfboard, watching the […]
August 4th, 2025
My fingernails have dirt under them from aggressive weeding, and I still have Hawaiian sand in my summer bag. I’ve never been a great cleaner or weeder. My first week back from Hawaii, I had an attitude, and it showed. I left the suitcase unpacked for a day or two, resisted the big food shop, […]
July 20th, 2025
In Glennon Doyle’s book Untamed, she introduces the world to a wonderful tool she teaches her children, “We can do hard things.” I easily adopted this as a mantra of my own. “I can do hard things,” as I enter the cold plunge. “I can do hard things,” as I step out of the car […]
July 15th, 2025
Waialea Bay on the Big Island of Hawaii is one of the most beautiful tree-lined beaches in the world. Yesterday was unusually misty and cool, but we’re not fair-weather beachgoers. When the weather shifts, we dig our chairs and feet in and stay put. We trust the sun to find us again. Because of this, […]
July 5th, 2025
We have only been on the big island for a few days and already I have so much to write. Like my inner voice is in prose all the time writing little haikus “My lips are sunburn Perhaps it is your kissing me I think it’s the kiss.” Or sensing in my rogue iambic pentameter […]
May 16th, 2025
Conversation opened. 1 unread message. Skip to content Using Gmail with screen readers 2 of 69,035 My Lu Lu bell is in Equadoe Inbox Bonnie Tarantino <bonnietarantino@gmail.com> 9:38 AM (1 minute ago) to me My Lu Lu Bell is in Ecuador. She quit her grueling cyber sales job back in November after saving for years to […]
May 11th, 2025
By Bonnie Tarantino We often ask good questions at dinner when we are all together, and our most recent question is: “When in your life so far have you felt like you were reaching your true potential?” Reflecting on it, I found myself, 39 years old, in the kitchen of our old house. My 8-year-old, […]
March 11th, 2025
“West Coast Mamma A few days ago, I landed on beach in San Diego. There is a very distinct feeling you get when you decide on the spot you want to put your stuff down. Like claiming a territory and planting a flag, we let the beach chairs roll off our shoulders and plunked our […]
January 7th, 2025
By Bonnie Tarantino Some friends just have a place in your life. For me, Jen is my neighborhood gang. She’s from Jersey, and I am from NY. A neighbor set us up. She just said , “You two should be friends.” Then she went in her house and left us out in her driveway. I […]