Cerissa Leese

consider this an invitation: remember what you’ve always known. Trust your instincts. Weave magic into your days, whether by candlelight or in the soil beneath your nails. Break bread with the old ways that never truly left us, and carry them forward—in the small moments, in the wild ones, in the quiet revolutions of the heart. Let the old ways rise again.

It wasn't until I became a mom that I really honed in on just how much alcohol is considered a way of life for us moms (ever heard of "mommy juice?"). And then once I came back from maternity leave I had other moms asking me what my nightly drink of choice was...because mom life is HARD work so we must need something to take the edge off, right?

In the last several years our political climate has gotten so extremely polarized. It's easy to take "sides." I've seen friends no longer be friends due to differing political views. Throughout all of this I kept thinking to myself, what is it I'm not getting?