Self Care
Can you pick just One Word?
Life is pretty simple. We complicate it and make things so much more difficult than it needs to be. We insist on overthinking, over-analyzing, and over exaggerating. We judge, complain, and criticize ourselves as well as others. We bury ourselves beneath the...
Girl, Drive Your Bus
Lies. We tell ourselves lies every day. We go one step further. We make ourselves believe the lies. We embrace the lies, live the lies, and define ourselves by the lies. We are so sure the lies are real that we tell other people our lies because we want others...
The Power is in the Period
I’m coming clean. Truth time. In hopes of being authentic, I’m taking my mask off and digging deep. I’m unloading my laundry, literally. Here goes: My sock basket is never empty. (wince) As a matter of fact, I haven’t seen the bottom of it for like 8 years. I...
Dear 50…
Dear 50, You got me. I ducked and dodged you all year and you finally caught me. Time is undefeated. Everyone says you’re just a number but we both know, it’s a big number. When I was a perky little twenty-something, I thought of 50-year-olds as over the hill,...
Are You a Duffle Bag or a Dump Truck?
I over-pack. Every single time I swear, “This trip I’m only going to take what I know I will need, not take anything extra, travel light.” And yet every time, my suitcase is heavier than I expect, jammed with things I will never use or wear. A four-day trip? I...
Don’t Ask Me to Clean Up Your Spilled Milk
Our brain is a funny little highway in our head--a complicated processing system that takes what we input, processes it, receives a message, and then stores that message somewhere. With the help of 100 billion (give or take a few) neurons, it does this...
The Warrior Woman Challenge
I’m tired of it. I’m done. I’m over it. My daughter is in middle school. I’m disheartened by the way girls treat girls. It’s upsetting and frankly, scary. We know the influence a mother has on her daughter and that modeling has much to do with how our children...
What Lies Beneath the Uniform
So young. So promising. So talented. Tonight, the sudden death of Washington State’s quarterback Tyler Hilinski rocked the sports world. At 21 years old, his death is tragic, devastating, and unfathomable. No death of a young person seems understandable but death...
The Forgotten Question
As someone who spent her youth moving from base to base, living in different countries or states, attending six different schools before seventh grade, not a lot in my life was constant. Change was frequent, and a new adventure was around every corner, especially...
2018: The Year you Create the Outcome you Want
I didn’t create it or think of it, but I do choose to live by it. Instead of naming off three or four resolutions for 2018 that will be broken or forgotten come February, I am adopting a mantra for the year or for the math-minded people (not me!), a formula, to...
