Happy New Year!

It’s 2023! Are you ready? I am. Bring on the resolutions, the goals, the challenges. I want them all. I’m excited, but cautiously optimistic. I have the tendency to go big and peter out. But the cool thing is that with every five new endeavors I take on, a...

Find Your Pace

Happy Monday!   Are you ready for our second week of December? It really feels like the calendar is running full speed to its end this year, doesn’t it? It makes me examine my own pace and ask myself the question: Am I racing too quickly to the finish line?  I...

Why I Write

You know when you get an idea? But it’s not even an idea yet. It’s still just a feeling, an essence. An essence that seems to help it all make sense. You try to put it into words, but it gets lost somehow – in the translation. So you go back to what...

A Walk Through Joshua Tree

We chose The Hidden Valley Trail. An easy 1-mile hike I thought the girls could handle. I watched as they ran free along the clearly marked trail. The blue sky speckled with perfectly white clouds. A landscape painted with rocks that rose from the ground like...

Listen to the Silence

I found myself caught up in my own chatter this morning. I have a tendency to work through things this way. Rather than sit with my thoughts, I push them out, and often onto an unsuspecting victim. Sometimes this is well received and ends productive. This morning that...