Fresh Start
The thing is I am scared to start writing and putting it out there, my life on paper, more importantly my words and observations strung together into sentences for others to see and judge scares me. I...
View ArticleLoss
A few days ago I was getting ready to leave for Casper, Wyoming. At this point the four short hours of highway between Denver, Colorado and Casper, Wyoming are familiar, in fact I think the staff at...
View ArticleHandful of passing thoughts
The space is quiet this morning. It is my favorite time of day, the morning sun so much softer and cooler then the mid day. I am clutching at ideas, at hope, at living in abundance. I catch myself...
View ArticleLater, not Now
I save another snippet of an article to read for later, tagging it in my Evernote “notebook” with key words that may help me find it later. Later when I don’t have a wedding in a couple days, later...
View ArticleDiscontentment
I can feel it in my heart; I have felt it before –discontentment with myself and where I am.Yet if you string together the images, life is beautiful, full of the unexpected, the wonderful and the...
View ArticleMoving away from Starvation
There was always dinner on the table of our rambling ranch style home, with horrible 70’s wallpaper, growing up. There were always clothes, and back to school supplies, all of our basic needs were met...
View ArticleBlur
I feel like I am tumbling over myself, I can hardly tell which way is up these days, and everything about the future seems blurry. Somehow I keep waking up, doing the basics of work, life and packing...
View ArticleDay 1
I want to write; no I want to be a writer. They say if you want to write then you should write everyday no matter what, so I am going. Sometimes it is going to suck, sometimes it might not but for the...
View ArticleDay 2 - showing up, and advice warmly welcomed
I am showing up today, because I promised I would.I am having breakfast on the floor.read more
View ArticleDay 3: Do you control everything?
There is something about just showing up. Not expecting, not trying to be something, but simply being present in the moment, in the space you are in, in your body.I am in love with worst-case...
View Article(Day 1, redo)
With the move, writing daily proved to be too much for me and I failed, no posts for 5 days no writing for 4, I begin again, Day 1 of my 30 day challenge – a redo. I try to not be completely dismayed...
View ArticleDay 4
Tomorrow is moving day, this morning is the second to last day I wake up in this apartment. I haven’t actually lived here that long. I moved in the end of February. We have had roommate after roommate...
View ArticleDay 2 - this is not an emergency
Hi out there, I know I must have a couple of readers, I am writing to you and for you and it is you who inspires me and keeps me writing, keeps me trying to do better. Well, you along with my own need...
View ArticleDay 3
Failure again to write everyday, but I am just going to keep writing, keep trying, build it into my routine, build it into my blood so it is a part of me like my breath and it becomes impossible to do...
View ArticleDay 4
Shortly after the most amazing blessing today, being invited to take Andrea’s Cultivating Courage class, I looked out the window and saw three beautiful white puffs floating in the air, sailing up,...
View ArticleDay 5 - wishing we could dance without stepping on each other's toes
Morning came to soon as it has most mornings lately. Fatigue of the last trimester has tangled me into a cloudy haze of exhaustion. The morning is dark, and soft, and those early motions of living...
View ArticleBaking Bread
I baked my first loaf of bread this weekend, a simple white loaf. Flour, yeast, water combined to make bread, and hot out of the oven with butter and honey nothing compares. It’s golden crust, soft and...
View Articlefilled to capacity
The week has pulled out like taffy in long stretches, and then folding over on itself it is pulled again. I feel stretched, rundown and empty. I have tried to fill myself up: a massage, good meal with...
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