After my post last week about our move to Montana (sorry local friends, our TRIP, not our move), a few people told me that I have an adventurous spirit. I do? Me, the one who tiptoes into the pool instead of jumping in? The one who hyperventilates at the thought of breaking any kind of rule, or (Gasp!), law? The introverted homebody? Me? Do I have an adventurous spirit, or…
I’ve been blogging for four years now. In that time, this blog has changed quite a bit. I’ve gone through seasons when I have so much to share that I’m tempted to post twice a day. And other seasons when I’m ready to close the computer and never look back. People ask me all the time what my end goal is with all of this. Honestly, I still don’t know.…
Being able to work for myself is a blessing. And sometimes a curse. What I struggle with most is truly setting down the work. Switching my brain off at the end of the day to focus on my family. Letting rest and peace and quiet fall. My brain races. Ideas pop, deadlines flash, iPhone beckons. Just one more email, one last scroll through instagram, one last tweet. I recently started…
I’m sitting here in the middle of a messy living room. Toys and coloring pages all around me. Shelves begging to be dusted. Ironing board in the corner, clothes piled high. When life looks like this I get the unshakable urge to simplify. To purge. To toss anything and everything we don’t absolutely need. And while it’s good and important to declutter once in a while, I’m learning that this…
{Source} When life gets overwhelming and the stress of this week threatens to pull you under, close your eyes, take a deep breath, and just be. Smile. Laugh. Get out of your head for a few minutes. Have a little fun. Loosen up. Breathe. {Source} Have a great week.
If you have two minutes, watch this short film about Smartphones. Does your life look like this? Do you identify with any of these scenes? I do. It’s like I live my life worried that if I didn’t document something, it didn’t really happen. Obviously this is a lie I have bought into. Ick. But what about the photographer and storyteller in me that is always itching to capture a…
Where does your motivation come from? Are you chasing after the right things? Or are you just trying to be somebody? Quote from Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Lifeby Anne Lamott