As a little girl, my favorite color was red for the longest time, but then the Power Rangers came along and I switched it to yellow (because the Red Ranger was a boy and I wasn’t about to be like every other girl who liked the Pink Ranger.) Colors are clearly emotional for me. Yesterday I was painting a landscape for my husband (see below). He…
As bad for me as it may be, I constantly want to know my future. It’s probably got something to do with my over-active planner gene that came into full expression sometime during college. I understand the fear of the unknown, the anxiety that just wants to get to the “other side” so I know what I’m up against. I find it impossible to not be…
There are very very VERY few celebrities I’ll admit that I admire. However, there is one woman, an actress, who time and again has shown me she will reach for something funny or spunky instead of grabbing at the overused mystique of a sexy, unreachable female who is, well, an object. Every time I see Emily Blunt perform, she embodies the character of a flesh and…
Something small grows into something powerful. In the new powerful film version of Les Miserables, two small things grow to enormous proportions—Jean Valjean’s crime and the mercy that Valjean receives through the priest. Valjean stole bread to feed a starving nephew and served nineteen years in prison as a result. Yet, upon his release, when he’s caught stealing silver from the priest’s house, the priest calls…
I watched him rock back onto his heels, a bright smile on his face as he clung to his partner's hands and kept the beat, dancing was never so beautiful to watch. When a normally quiet engineer (or journalist or software designer) suddenly glows under the influence of music and friends, I believe dance is pulling us into its magic glow. The other day I attended…
As I watched him rock back onto his heels, a bright smile on his face as he clung to his partner's hands and kept the beat, dancing was never so beautiful to watch. When a normally quiet engineer (or journalist or software designer) suddenly glows under the influence of music and friends, I believe dance is pulling us into its magic glow. The other day I…
Presents, sugary treats, and cramming in all of the holiday events always makes this month spread wings and fly. Yet, December is the closing month of the year, the time I can look back and see all that has happened. My powerful lesson at the year’s opening taught me just how hard I push myself, and how dangerous a life “lived in red” truly is. This…
Welcome to the Friday Five – my weekly tradition of listing four thoughts or lessons from my week, and one fun picture. This has been a low energy week for me (sometimes hibernation sound like such a good idea!), and it’s been a good time to practice reminding myself that I’m still a worthy, lovable person, even when I feel too tired to do anything that…
Today it's my pleasure to introduce you today to Dr. Shay Fabbro. Shay and I met through our publisher and I've grown to love her sense of humor and fun. Shay writes imaginative and heartfelt stuff, and this real-life story is amazing. Sometimes the things we remember about the people we love are the bad things they helped us escape. I love this warm twist on…
I was gasping through the Seattle Marathon when I saw a friendship that drew tears from my eyes. *Clears throat* To be perfectly honest, I didn’t run the full course. My husband and I joined my cousin, the real marathon-runner, at Mile 20 to encourage her. I saw a fifty-year-old man running barefoot, women chatting to keep their minds off the pain, a father and little…