This morning I woke up and, for the first time, felt a real longing for my old lifestyle. I wandered down to Starbucks and got a soy chai latte and some oatmeal but what I really wanted was a big mug of hot coffee and a chocolate chip muffin. So far I haven’t missed these [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
