Shoes

March 26, 2021

Scored a pair of these moccasins at a thriftstore today, still new with tags, exactly my size. Sweet. Got home. Put them on. Happy feet, this is nice, I really like them… AND THEN – the youngest child dragged me outside while I was making dinner… “Mommy, come see what […]

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Both

March 8, 2021

It can be both. What can? Life can. Your hair. Your family. Your friends. Your commute. Your job. Your day. All the things, really. Both what? Good and bad. Deeply joyful and deeply painful. Crippling and empowering. Hugely important and irrelevant. Beautiful and detestable. Cherished and repugnant. It can be […]

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CLOSURE

March 2, 2021

I am typing this from my screened in lanai, watching banana leaves dance under gently falling rain. Location: home in Hawaii. We will be here for three weeks. So of course I gave our friends here lots of notice that we were coming back. Of course I did. And of course […]

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Following

March 1, 2021

Rip it off like a bandaid version: The punchline is, we’re basically *moving to Oregon.  *but we’re keeping our home here and I have every intention of bringing the kids back here at least once a year if not twice and Hawaii will ALWAYS be home to my soul. So. […]

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Cathartic

February 3, 2021

Do you ever dream situations similar to stuff you’ve dealt with in real life, but then in the dream, you get to do stuff you’d never do in person? Last night I dreamed there was a nurse and her assistant “offering” me and my husband the covid vaccine. We were […]

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Perspective

January 27, 2021

  At 10:30am when your lap dog just REALLY wants to sit on your lap like it’s the best most wonderful place to be in the whole wide world, and you find it super grounding and calming — like force-feeding your busy mind a great big bite of inner peace […]

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Strength

January 26, 2021

I just went back and read through some of my life’s significant content from Jan/Feb 2020. That was *before* the world went crazy in reactions to the presence of a new virus. On January 4th that year, I learned one final piece about what was going on with me and […]

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