It is New Year’s Eve, and most people are reflecting on the past year and how they spent their time… which has me thinking about something related, but definitely different – space. There have been many moments over the past year where I have questioned how I spent my money, or time, but one of […]
Imaginal Discs
Now that it’s officially fall, I find myself reflecting on the hurried end of summer. Maybe it is the many changes that have occurred in these past few weeks… moving houses… the start of school… but I have caught myself stopping at post after post of the “home-grown” monarch butterflies that have been fluttering through […]
Holding Patterns
Growing up, I spent a lot of time around airplanes (Maybe this is why I feel so “flighty” most of the time? Ha). After meeting my mom in the Air Force, my dad transitioned into a position as an air traffic controller during the great FAA unrest of the Reagan era (when I was about […]
Memorial
Most anyone who has spent time in the “service industry” knows that being “in the weeds” means that you are so far behind you just can’t seem to catch up. Maybe it is my “server” perspective, but my life recently (okay, truthfully, almost always, ha) feels “in the weeds” – and, as if to punctuate […]
Neglige/ence
It never occurred to me that Mother Theresa would ever inspire me to shop at Victoria’s Secret, but that is exactly what happened the other day. Often times I find myself mindlessly perusing the internet in a vain attempt to get back to sleep after multiple wakings with my year-old son. It was in one […]
A Creative Spark
I once read that people are more creative when they are tired. That must be why moms are some of the most creative people I know. I know moms who write, draw, paint, act, sing, dance, bake, photograph, style, design, pickle, and knit. And they do it all while managing “blessings” and households. Then there […]
Milestones Over Millstones 