…forward? Yes, it feels like that. I’ve written this post a few times over… or rather, I’ve started it at least that many times.  One post went down a very detailed path diving into loss of identity.  One post barely skimmed the surface serving mostly as a “hey, I’m here” kind of thing – much […]

Maybe this has been building for some time, like a kid building a hill in a dry sand box.  Small shovel after shovel of sand moving from one side to the next, not really doing much as we all know what happens with dry sand. But then you hit the moist sand below and now […]

… join ’em. So let’s say I don’t have my dream job of being a concert tour manager or promoter… so instead I just spend all of my spare change on concert tickets – do you think that applies to the title of the post?  Have I grown comfortable with always being in the audience […]

A few posts ago, I bragged about my resolution… or goal rather… to conquer inclines without being completely spent while trail running this year.  I followed that proclamation up by purchasing new trail running shoes (my old ones are as bald as the tires on my ’88 Ford Escort my senior year of HS before […]

This force of nature left us yesterday.  It was exponentially harder to let happen than I thought it would be.  Like, rivers of tears harder. I adopted her when she was they very tiniest of kittens.  She made the move from Texas to Arkansas and then to Oregon.  What a life for a cat. She […]

Raise your hand if you long for the weekend for slow, quiet hours folding laundry or watching a movie or sleeping in?  We certainly don’t believe in the phrase “slow down” at our house.  We spend all week looking forward to the weekend so we can rest (we’re full of good intentions), and then promptly […]

Here’s a topic for you… Valentine’s Day. Where you sit with this holiday?  It’s not as controversial as, let’s say, Columbus Day/Indigenous Peoples Day.  I will say, though, that it sparks more discussion in the hallway outside of my office door than the politically fueled controversial holidays. I’ve always enjoyed it.  I loved making a […]

It was about 6pm on Friday when a sigh of relief left my lips.  I was turning my car onto a snow covered dirt road somewhere in Mt. Hood forest. My favorite guy in the passenger seat. Both of us ready for a couple of days away. After the week we’d had, I wasn’t sure […]

I’m not “religious” about setting resolutions.  Not to say I haven’t done this in the past, I just don’t do it regularly and I certainly don’t follow through with them once I put them down on paper.  I believe in 2015 I had all kinds of goals for running… and then I broke my ankle… […]