Creativity and adventure every day
Even after being home for almost two weeks, processing our experiences in Panama is not easy. Jumping right back into a rigorous schedule of activities did not help. Regardless, I am not sure how to break this down in fewer than five posts. I took more than 400 photos. I’m sharing the best with you. […]
Our family traveled to the Bocas del Toro province of Panama in early August. A tropical vacation in the summer, during the rainy season? Not my preference for a vacation honestly. This was not a typical vacation. Instead it was a mission trip that we’d prayed for, saved for and planned for more than three […]
My husband grew up in a suburb of Denver. I headed to Fort Collins for college, which is where we met. I loved living in Colorado all eight years we were there. I miss it even as I know it will never be they way I remember. But I cherish our vacations there. In 2018, […]
Inaction is an action. Not making a decision makes a decision. It’s easy to forget that not doing something is as much of a choice and can have as many consequences as doing something. This has been a theme that I’ve seen in four different friends’ lives this week. And then it happened in my […]
The stars on shoes struck me. They were absolutely brilliant. So much so that perhaps all large groups should consider them. You see, many writers are introverts, so a writers conference is quite the challenge for many attendees. Someone suggested the introverts who wanted to meet people and talk but didn’t want to move outside […]
Work. Commute. Housework. Laundry. Food. Exercise. Wash and repeat. Our everyday lives are a great recipe for burn out. We do what we have to do, then vegetate in a stupor in front of an electronic device to recover just so we can do it again the next day. That’s why the entertainment business is […]
Finding time and space to express our creativity is no easy feat. Culture and family dynamics during our formative years seem to have something to do with it. Even if we aren’t struggling to make ends meet, the demands on our time between careers, spouses, kids and schools can make it seem as if there […]
I’ve noticed that when I, or my family, have nothing scheduled, nothing planned, nothing to do, that I seem out of sorts. It’s a conundrum because I also have the opposite problem: Too much on the schedule and not enough downtime. After too many days like that, I’m not so much out of sorts as […]
Traveling is in my blood. When I was a kid, my elder sister begged to stay home alone instead of going on family vacations. I was the other extreme. I took time off work and would quit a job instead of miss a family vacation. My parents showed my brother and I most of the […]
You test. Then you examine. Then test again. My email went through. Now to try a random blog post. Please comment to let me know if you received it. Thank you so much for being my guinea pigs. And not getting crabby. (This guy was harassed by Wryly on the Texas beach.)
