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this is my reality
Not the most novel thought concept, but there is way too much noise in our lives, and not just the auditory kind. For anyone who spends time wrapped up in social media outlets, you end up bombarded with a mega-dose of someone else’s perception of their lives, a constant barrage of images, minutiae pieces of [...]
loss, and love
Loss is everywhere right now, as the country reels from the horror at yesterday’s Boston Marathon, but the loss I’m going to talk to you about today is much, much closer to home.
merry christmas to all…..
We have the smallest amount of snow possible, the rock hard leftovers from the 15 inches that fell on the 9th, then melted, re-froze and eventually got rained on a week later. So technically, we’ll have a white Christmas, but not the magical white, sparkling like a lit up spruce tree. We’ll definitely have cold [...]
instagram friday….. and vacation stats
I sure hope you didn’t miss me. Because, quite frankly, I didn’t miss Minnesota much at all, nor did I even think much about it, or the people, the impending Fall and it’s glorious colors or really, much of anything. Except my furbabies. {{place your cursor over the photos to get a description of them}} [...]
ten years
“Chains do not hold a marriage together. It is threads, hundreds of tiny threads which sew people together through the years.” ~Simone Signoret “You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.” ~Sam Keen I married at 38, and by that time in [...]
happy friday!
I didn’t get around to an Instagram Friday post; this week needed some stepping back time, a few days at the lake and alone with my own heart to become a bit more grounded, seeing life a bit clearer. I took my big camera along, which I’ve affectionately named Clara, and I was so grateful [...]
the good guys
It’s Fathers Day. And in my son’s life there have been two amazing men who have taken on the role of raising him who were never asked, nor expected to do so. My brother Mike, in the photo above, has been a constant in Griffin’s life since the moment he was born, and they share [...]
eighteen
He’s here, I said to myself, the moment I felt him slip from my body and the doctor said ‘It’s a boy’ before they whisked him away from me to clear his lungs from the traumatic start to his life. My body tried hard to reject him that last week of pregnancy, tried to rebel [...]
happy spring!!
I should know better than to mope about the seasons in Minnesota; just as soon as you think you’ll never surface from the drudgery of Winter, endlessly bleak landscapes and brown for as far as you can see, Mother Nature pulls a fast one and flips the switch to Spring, complete with unbearably beautiful weather [...]
what 48 looks like
It’s my birthday. I’m 48. It sounds odd to say; 48 years and plenty of life gone past. But, it isn’t so bad. At heart, I don’t feel 48. My friends tell me they can’t believe I’m 48 (do they not see the wrinkles??) and I can’t understand how I got to be this age. [...]