Archive for the ‘life’ Category

You say the hill’s too steep to climb. Just climb it.

Six weeks ago, I started some pretty big changes in my diet and my lifestyle. The week between Christmas and New Years I did a cleanse. It was an amazing experience for a few reasons. First, I learned the difference between hunger and eating from emotions and habit. Second, for the first time in years, [...]


Reflection on 2009: The year I turned 35

This year I turned 35. I know that isn’t really old. In fact, most of my 30’s have been the best years of my life were I was starting to feel pretty comfortable in my own skin. But then I turned 35 and, unexpectedly, I started looking pretty critically at myself. I started asking the [...]


Best of 2009: Challenge

December 9 Challenge. Something that really made you grow this year. That made you go to your edge and then some. What made it the best challenge of the year for you?
Almost a year and half ago I created a list of things I want to do in this life and on that list was [...]


Best of 2009: moment of peace

December 8 Moment of peace. An hour or a day or a week of solitude. What was the quality of your breath? The state of your mind? How did you get there?
I am an introvert and peace and quiet is a must for me. Occasionally I have to pull the shades and walk around in [...]


Best trip of 2009

I love the blog challenge from Gwen Bell to blog about your “bests” of 2009. I’m a little late in starting the new blog post for each day in December but I’m going to try to catch up and keep going with the new ones.
The December 1 prompt was “What was your best trip in [...]


new resolution

I found this blog tonight with some resolutions that inspired me. Below are a few of my favorites. What are your resolutions?

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I wanna have pride like my mother has,
And not like the kind in the bible that turns you bad.
~ from The Perfect Space by The Avett Brothers
The lyrics above really touched me at the concert the other night. I have always respected my mother and thought she could do no wrong but as I have [...]


Home and beyond

If you have been following along on our grand road trip here, you may be wondering where we are since I left us in Portland. Not only did we make it through Yellowstone and Colorado but we have been home a couple of weeks now and are working on getting back into our routines.
I have [...]


Back in the states…

In the past week, we drove through the Yukon again, took the Stewart-Cassiar highway and drove from Watson Lake in the Yukon to Prince George in British Columbia, spent three days in Vancouver, BC, one night in Seattle, a hike in the Mount Rainier National Park and we are now in Portland, OR for a [...]


Alaska

It is the end of the second week and we have been to Fairbanks, Talkeetna, Anchorage, Seward and Homer and we are now back in Tok getting ready to start the second part of the trip back through British Columbia to Vancouver, Seattle, Portland and so on. Although we really wanted to experience Alaska, we [...]