Why I’m Going to Costa Rica
I'm driving through the countryside near our home. The curvy back roads hug the base of the mountain ridge like a summer skirt. Centuries-old stone farmhouses stand framed by broad, green fields, lazy cattle, blue sky, and billowy clouds. My pulse slows. Shallow...
My Girl
She moves like a dancer. In a coffee shop. From the oven where she starts the scones. To the coffee machine. I hear the shoosh of beans loading in. The music is turned up loud. Yesterday, she explained to me how syncopated rhythms release endorphins....
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 30 – We’re Not Done Yet!
Today is day THIRTY of the Thirty Days of Thanks! I hope you have joined me in this challenge over the last thirty days and that your days are more joyful, free, and satisfying because of it. But we're not done yet! ". . the practice is intended to be a way of...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 29 – Just Words
Some days that's all these are. Just words. Ideas. Ideals. But not much more than that. When my heart won't let go of what it sees and see beyond to what it knows, that's all these are. Just words. My head whispers, LOUD . . "Hypocrite." And I start slipping. Dreams...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 26 – Resolution
"Pleeeeeaaassse keep your hair down." Sam reaches for my hands as I try to pull back my hair into a ponytail. "I need to pull it back, Sam." "Nooo. Please keep it down," as he fluffs it up into the air. He pulls it across my face and laughs, "You look like a squid!" I...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 22 – Happy Thanksgiving!
Today will undoubtedly be a full day . . in more ways than one. For all the preparation, we often still find ourselves caught off guard. By life. In all her beauty. And her mess. Somehow we imagine she wasn't invited to this feast. Or at least got the memo...
Thirty Days of Thanks: Day 21 – Perspective
It was a booger of a morning. Besides starting at five am, I'd had two hard conversations even before my first cup of coffee. Life is like that. She's not polite, and she doesn't care that Monday mornings are overwhelming to me no matter what time they begin. In fact,...
