Mid February for me is the worst time of the year. It’s funky in a bad way. I wrote last week* about my concerns of restarting bad habits in vulnerable times. My bad habit is and was eating in times of boredom, stress, and angst. For me, weight and the...
Valentine’s Day is less than a week away. Do you have a plan to celebrate with someone special? I thought it would be fun to look at a few facts about Valentine’s Day. Did you know… Every year, more than 36 million heart shaped boxes of candy are sold across...
There was this movie years ago called Pleasantville. The basis of this movie was as people became aware and conscious, color was added to their black and white existence. A year ago I feel we were - as everyone was - thrust into a black and white world. The color...
Well, we lost one of the baby hedgehogs last week. It had stopped growing and had some kind of growth on its face which upon research is pretty common as they are prone to tumors in their mouth and throat. Andrew was heartbroken, but the other hedgehog seems to be...
My friend Darrel from Sioux City - great guy, we were in the same grade in school - sang a song about old friends* and posted it on his Facebook site. My class had about 330 students and there are so many diverse and angry posts on all sides of...
~PAUSE~ This morning while I was getting ready I looked down and noticed that a diamond was missing from my wedding ring….YIKES!! Now this is not something you would like to have happen any morning, or time of day for that matter… to have a diamond missing. But for some...
One of my goals for 2021 is to try things and do things that I once thought “nope”. I rode my bike a couple of times in this past month - once it was really cold and then this week when it wasn’t. My perspective from the first time was...
Maleigha decided to break out of her comfort zone and cut her hair this past week. I have loved her hair long, but ultimately it is her decision and she went back and forth on how much to cut. As she was sitting in the chair she shared that she...
I went out riding on Saturday because at the time I thought it would be fun. It was 20 degrees and it was definitely not fun. I thought I was going to lose my toes on my left foot. My new quest is to figure out how to warm the...
Ok, so this is the fourth time rewriting this column this week. There is so much happening in the world and I don’t know about you but my emotions are in a big jumble. I was going to write about leaning up life. Cutting out the unnecessary steps that add...
