To be honest, I kinda wish the story had ended there. Hind sight I should have just gone home that day and booked my flights but I didn’t. I stayed in that vanilla groove life had seemingly created for me. I flirted, fantasized, and fully researched plane tickets and travel information. I read the website… Read More Adventuring to Cuba: part 2
In a small act of self-care I enrolled in couples therapy and a writing class on the same day. On that September afternoon, the golden light pouring through the ponderosa pine trees, I felt like a revolution had been started. My own personal revolution against letting life slip into the groove of what is easy.… Read More Adventuring to Cuba: part 1
“Art is the Ultimate Revolution” There are schools of therapy dedicated to this concept. The idea is that the further we get away from collective knowledge or collective order or perhaps collective understanding, the more healing is possible. The idea rolls around in my head often. Seeing society and culture as only a lens, holding… Read More Words from Cuba
I associate this phrase with gratitude and staying aware about what I have in life. But over the past week, this phrase has transformed into something different. With the year being 2020 and marinating in the idea of perfect vision and hindsight, I am finding that “you don’t know what you’ve got until it is… Read More You Don’t know What You’ve Got Until It Is Gone
My legs felt strong yesterday in the Strength and Conditioning class I have been attending for about two years now. I stepped aside and watched a guy load the sled with weights, more weights than I have ever pulled across the gym. He seemed proud of himself and confident he was going to make it… Read More Strength
I find myself on the start of a fresh line of a new phrase reveling in then end of the most beautiful parentheses in my life’s journey. Abbey came crashing into my life on a usual rainy Gig Harbor day on April 11th, 2003. She, shaken and bruised, all 2 pounds and several ounces of… Read More the most beautiful parentheses
These two themes are behind this new blog. Right now, in the making, is my bold leap toward ownership of my words, my goals, and the life I am leading. Grief tore through my life last year and began a cascade of events that cannot be undone. And while some of those events I would… Read More Surrender and Fresh Starts
