The Secret Life of Words

I enjoy analyzing things. And disclaimer; I will nerd out on you today a bit. After sharing Seth’s reply to my email yesterday, I could practically hear the screaming disbelief… “he’s a writer and his capitalization and punctuation look like THAT?!?” And I will admit, I put on

Short, Sweet and Just What I Needed to Hear

2 hours after I sent my email…! Sometimes they even write back. And sometimes you don’t have to wait very long for them to do it :)

I Wrote a Letter to Someone I Admire Today

I had my own mini adventure this morning sitting right here in my chair with my granny blanket. I’ve always enjoyed the fantasy of writing to someone I really admire and having them write back. And sometimes it even happens. I wrote an email to Seth Godin this morning.

Memories; The Movies We Play in Our Minds

This is what life is about… Love And making memories. (Yes, there’s more, but then I wouldn’t have topics to write about later…) They’re the only things we get to take with us when we check out. We grow up being so excited about going to the

The Places We Fall

Whether we are talking about love or nature places, everyone deserves a luscious soft place to fall.

Raspberries, Mothers, and Daughters

Me and Henry were raiding the raspberry patch yesterday after working on trails through the forest to new hammock sites (😍😍). While we were nibbling a thought occurred to me. Mothers are awesome. We provide milk for our babies as long as our babies need that milk and once they don’

Hard Things Deepen Our Human-ness

Life can be hard. But it’s sometimes the hardness of life that can make us more human. More relatable. Approachable. Humble. Compassionate.  If we are strong enough to resist becoming hard then that means that we have surrendered ourselves to becoming softer. More vulnerable. More true. More real. That

Love and Airports

I love airports. And I know I say “I love…” a lot. But I love a lot of things. And I’m not ever going to apologize for love soooooo… deal with it. Airports are portals. Not just because they can transport you physically to far off lands in relatively

The Kind of Old Lady I Want to Be

My sister, Theresa, had her 40th birthday party yesterday so I flew to Edmonton to meet the fam and some buddies to spend it with her. *I’m currently writing this post in the Calgary airport 😁 It was a pretty epic time. We dressed up in jungle animal themed clothes,

A 5 Year Old’s Rite of Passage.

Henry sometimes gets upset about always having to do what I say. In these moments his go-to is always; “when do I get to be the boss??!” When I ask him what he would do if he was boss he always says he would buy gum. Probably because he’

This Post Is For Me, But I’ll Share It With You If You Want

I'm sharing my kids’ answers from this “questions for kids” activity that circulated Facebook 6 years ago because this is a bright spot on my heart. Hard to believe that Henry wasn’t even born yet…❤️ WITHOUT prompting, ask your child (or adult child) these questions and write

I Have a Well Balanced Diet (If You Squint)

I have a well balanced kitchen. I balance my organic raw broccoli salad, green smoothie and raw zucchini noodles with Mac and cheese, hot dogs, and pizza. I rotate seedy energy balls, veggies and hummus and homemade guacamole with chocolate chip cookies and Tim’s ice caps. Sometimes it’s