Today marks six years of blogging. Six years of hugs. Six years of kisses and six years of snot. Tons of snot. Six years ago I started this blog after attending a Pioneer Woman book signing with the secret hope … Continued
Picture for me, if you will, the following scene… Me sitting in a cafe in Santa Fe, NM. Sipping coffee, eating pastry, warming my feet by a crackling fire with the smell of pinion wood in the air. Bundling up … Continued
Earlier this week I shared why I took my 12-year-old son to the Woman’s March in our state capitol. As the week went on lots of other women shared why they did or did not go to their march. I … Continued
I met Julie Hunt through an online writing group called Hope Writers. I attended their writing workshop last November and by chance, Julie and I were roommates. When we first started corresponding about logistics the workshop I had no … Continued
I can definitely say that I’m happy to see 2016 go. Other than the Cubs winning the World Series, 2016 was a total dumpster fire. Hot smelly garbage, on fire…stinking up everything around it, billowing out a plum of putrid, … Continued
What I learned in November has stuck with me all the way through December. I learned that each next step (be it hobby, career or life) can be made intentionally with the motivation of love behind it. Even the really … Continued
Last month I traveled to Charlotte, North Carolina to attend a writer’s workshop. This particular writer’s workshop was put on by a group called Hope Writers. Hope Writers was created by sisters and authors Emily P. Freeman and Myquillyn Smith … Continued
This past October I learned that I need to calm the heck down and lower my expectations from people volunteering to do a job. I volunteer a lot and know what it means to give of your time with no … Continued
Earlier this year I started posting “what I learned” each month and participating in Emily P Freeman’s link up to share with the blogosphere what I learned. I’m a little late for September seeing as how it is already the … Continued
I’m not going to say that what I learned in July was that summer slips by really quickly. That everything is moving too fast. That I don’t know where the time has gone. We all know that to be true … Continued
