An Alaskan Update
Since the last time I graced the internet with my wonderful presence a whole lot of life has happened. I’m currently sitting in a small duplex in the heart of suburbia Anchorage, Alaska and here to...
View ArticleThe hard The good
So much hard going on and it feels like so little good. I know I’m surrounded by good, by love and abundance, full, silly, warmth, good company. How is it we can be consumed by the few hard and...
View ArticleI am not Mom
I am currently losing it. She is in her bedroom sobbing. He is shuffling around eating far too many tic-tacs because it’s keeping him quiet and occupied. I’m managing the budget wondering how next...
View ArticleWhy Jesus Christ is Important in My Life
I spoke in my church services a few weeks and while I don’t often (ever) share thoughts of a spiritual nature here I feel inclined to share the experience and words I spoke over the pulpit. There are...
View ArticlePlease stop telling me how admirable my job is
I hear a form of it often. It came from my husband’s peers and teachers at school, it comes from people at church, it comes from my husbands employees, it comes from online articles and bloggers. It...
View ArticleDepression On Paper
This post is the start of a series I’ll be posting on mental health and my experience with depression and other mood disorders. I’m kind of terrified to publish it. It’s my darkest, my deepest, it’s my...
View ArticleNew Watercolor Fabric Designs
Taking a break from the down and dreary posts. Painting it therapy for me so I’ve been doing a lot of it. Because of the push of some fabulous friends I’ve started selling the paintings as fabric over...
View ArticleMoms, we do not have the hardest job in the world
Being a stay at home mother is hard. And sometimes you don’t want to do it. Sometimes you need “me” time. Sometimes you are so tired of the “hold me’s” and the constant touching, and the breakfasts...
View ArticleThe Cockroaches
Who knows how and why the demons come and go from the room in my brain. They are cockroaches. They consume without hesitation, without empathy, without mercy. It is deafening as they infiltrate my...
View ArticleGoing through old photographs
I’m going through old photographs and I’m finding a few really fantastic gems, including these two. How is it that these two kids look SO little here and also exactly the same as now? It’s the eyes....
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