Strength for the journey, no matter where we travel
Do you associate summertime with reading? Are you a reader? If so, did you notice a shift in what genre you read? If not a reader, have you considered why that is? Over a lifetime, my own relationship with reading has been complicated. Times where I loved it and read voraciously. Times where it was …
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Journals: New & Old This is what a decade looks like. On my studio shelf are 17 journals going all the way back to February 1, 2014. Back then, the Moleskin dotted journal was mostly filled with daily task lists (courtesy of a decade of Franklin planner lessons). Yet, within those initial journal pages are …
On the eve of a birthday, I would go into my daughter's room and say "goodbye." For her 8th birthday, I went into her room the night before and said, "Goodbye my 7 year old. It was great to meet you!" Then we'd recap some of the things that the 7 year old got to …
"A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones." - Proverbs 14:30 Envy is rarely presented as a positive attribute. Rarely? Ok, possibly NEVER. Yet, envy is precisely what enabled me to go from reading maybe a handful of books (even that's probably exaggerating a bit) each year to reading …
Where were you on New Year's Eve 2022-2023? I was on a cruise ship, a place I'd never dreamed of being when I watched the ball drop from 2021-2022! I traveled with a friend and, as the new year approached, we reflected on what went well in 2022, what we wished had been better, and …
Hi there! Miss me? I had a work thing...and then a vacation...and then the return from vacation that sometimes seems more work so we might be tempted to NOT take a vacation BECAUSE we of the uncomfortable feeling of "falling behind." Behind what? For how long? Why falling? Or is it the sense of falling? …
Say what!?! You may already know my name. You may not know that I am an E7: which stands for Enneagram 7 - The Adventurer/Enthusiast. (If you're curious what your Enneagram type may be, you can take an Enneagram "test" here for free.) For those of you who know me, the "Enthusiast" title may not …
A number of years ago, for my birthday I asked people to post suggestions on social media of things for me to try doing in recognition of the new decade. Skydiving, foreign travel, and sampling exotic or unusual foods were all suggested. However, the only suggestion that still stands out in my mind was the …
Lately, I've been thinking a lot about the "armor" we metaphorically put on for protection. For some of us, it's become such a part of who we are that we don't even realize we're wearing it and end up never taking it off. My mother used to say, "You don't put a horse in the …
It's the (mostly) unspoken question that lingers under the surface as I've been telling people that I've returned to writing. In fact, the support received last week in response to my writing publicly again was incredible...overwhelming even. Exactly the kind of "feel good" moment so many people crave. Yet, the satisfaction of that particular craving …
"Krafting" Bridges 