Archive for the ‘thankful’ Category

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 [...]


Fort Nelson –> Fairbanks

When I last left off, I was in Fort Nelson in a hotel, rested and ready to hit the road again. And that is what we did. We drove and drove and drove the past few days and have finally made it to Fairbanks Alaska! The drive from Fort Nelson to Whitehorse was long and [...]


KY –> AK – Week 1

We have been on the road less than a week and I can’t believe how much we have seen and done. The first few days was just driving and although it made for long days it wasn’t bad. Wisconsin, Minnesota and North Dakota were all new for me and I found them all to be [...]


Let’s do this thing!

In two days, John and I are hitting the road and we are driving to Alaska and back… yep, that’s right. Driving. to. Alaska. Are we crazy? Probably. Are we madly looking forward to it. Oh yeah!! We have been counting down the months, then weeks and finally the days until we leave. It will [...]


The Invitation

Sharon read the following poem while we were at the Barefoot Works Yoga retreat last weekend and it kinda kicked me in the gut a little and made me want to read everything I could be Oriah Mountain Dreamer. I love this poem. The Invitation ~ Oriah Mountain Dreamer It doesn’t interest me what you [...]


weekend warriors

I started into this past weekend with only general plans and it developed into a wonderful, refreshing two days were things got accomplished and I spent time enjoying the great company of my friend Shannon and my husband John. On Saturday, Shannon and I met at Third Street Stuff to work on putting together a [...]


dancing around the world

Let’s all get together and dance. The world would be a much better place I think:


home and friends

Between yard work, house stuff, freelance jobs and work in general I feel like I have been running full speed for some time now. I was looking through my photos I have taken over the past month, that I haven’t had time to process and upload to flickr, and I realized that I have been [...]


I’m lucky and thankful for it

This past weekend was a great reminder to me how special my family is to me and how little time I really get to spend with them. My nephew graduated from high school last Saturday which seems impossible to me. It seems like yesterday that I got a call telling me that my sister was [...]