Real Women, Swimming Upstream
https://youtu.be/uJeq4RMNUgA It is not joy that makes us grateful. It is gratitude that makes us joyful.David Steindl-Rast Last night my husband and I noticed a change in the air, a sort of frenetic energy. Maybe some of it has to do with the Cave Fire threatening our community but this mood does seem to overshadow [...]
Photo credit to our wonderful neighbor, Larry Tonight I found myself standing at our crappy little stove thinking, we’re going to miss this. There’s a really fun upgrade to the oven temperature electronic panel that makes it almost impossible to select the desired bake temperature. For example, if I’m going for a bake temp of [...]
I made passion fruit ice cream today. It was my first time making ice cream- as an adult. I was totally convinced I would need to purchase rock salt because that's how we did it when I was a kid (*old lady statement right there). Instead I bought this freezable mixing bowl assembly that works [...]
“You no longer get vacations, you get trips” This was a piece of soberingly true advice I received once we were promoted to parents. After a rough family vacation to Cabo last year I was more than a little weary to reattempt family travel. Thankfully, now older and wiser, this year’s vacation was the closest [...]
How many of you live down the street from your parents? How about aunts, uncles, cousins? I don’t and most of the people I know don’t either. Distributed families are becoming more and more the norm especially with events like going away to college, traveling or moving to take advantage of a job opportunity. It’s [...]
There’s something about September that makes me itch. It’s like a niggling neurosis that I can’t figure out, a build up of potential energy like water behind a dam. Summertime is all about enjoyment, marinating, soaking, the gluttony of pleasure. Something about the anticipation of autumn causes me to tighten up, to pace. I thought [...]
In Everyday Eroticism I am asking, what turns you on about your LIFE? Maybe these are the juicy moments, the real definition of stopping to smell the roses, or maybe they are belly laughs. Sometimes life isn’t all sunshine and maybe your Everyday Eroticism is a moment of pride or a small but seismic adjustment [...]
Source Unknown I’m not sold on the work hard, play hard mentality with a double shot of sharing everything with your 1,000 closest friends. In my candid opinion that sounds like hard x hard with a side order of external validation. When, where and how do we learn the softer side of Self Care and [...]
Source As I sit in my living room overseeing my children’s speech therapy session while holding a chicken I wonder, when did I completely lose it? Was there a gradual loss of with-it-ness or was it more of an abrupt leap off the deep end? I’ve become a crazy chicken lady. Watering the garden, holding [...]
bktheartist In Everyday Eroticism I am asking, what turns you on about your LIFE? What are the little moments that make you take pause and feel gratitude for this precious existence... or simply make you laugh out loud? I like to think of these moments as the pearls in my day, between the hurry scurry and [...]
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