A year ago I was, unbeknownst to me, in the final week of my career at Wells Fargo Insurance. I would spend the coming weekend in the hospital, and eventually be diagnosed with an illness that would change everything about how I did life. Everything. I never saw it coming. As I look back at the past year, it is […]
Adjusting my Lens (4/2/2016)
Have you ever flip-flopped between two extreme emotions in the space of a breath? If you haven’t, I’m jealous and want to know your secret, but in the meantime I invite you to take a moment to peek into my crazy. If you have, you should identify a bit with what I’m writing here. Often I love social media. […]
Resurrection Sunday (3/26/2016)
I have been a bit down all day yesterday and today, struggling to put my finger on why. And then I realized. Tomorrow, Easter Sunday, will be the first time my extended family, my mom, local brothers and sister-in-law, niece, and nephew, has been together since my Dad’s funeral on December 30. It will also be the first family gathering […]
Fresh Eyes (3/25/2016)
It started out as a routine Sunday morning. I woke up slightly earlier than I wanted to because that’s just the way it is, I rolled out of bed, made coffee, read a bit, made breakfast and ate with my husband while our young adults still slept. Grateful for a later church service time, I went upstairs to do my […]
Focus: Choosing where to Gaze (3/19/2016)
I recently heard a Christian speaker and writer, Karen Ehman, say that you can choose where you glance and where you gaze. This really resonated with me, this description of choosing your focus in life. So let me share a story. I used to hike. A lot. My husband and I went on some grand and somewhat hard-core adventures a few […]
Taking the Leap: A February 29 Challenge
Waking up predawn today I found a train of thought lurching around my brain that I knew I’d have to let out today. So here goes. Leap year has always fascinated me on a couple of fronts. First, it extended my birthday month by a whole day, so as a kid I thought that was cool. Second, I felt so […]
My Spot (2/15/2016)
Here it is. This is where the bulk of the past 9 ½ months of my life have been spent. Not a bad place at all. There has typically been a water or tea cup on the shelf next to me, my iPad and phone close at hand, occasionally my laptop. Since August I’ve almost always had knitting in my […]
Art Imitates Life (2/10/2016)
One of the perks of my current chronic-illness life is tied closely to my lack of schedule. This has enabled me to tag along on several occasions with my awesome husband when he travels for business. Which is what brought me to Seattle in January, not a typical time for tourists to flock to the Emerald City. However, I loved […]
Control (1/20/2016)
I am a girl who likes to steer the ship. I like to have some say (okay a LOT of say) in what’s going on and I like to day-planner/project manage/to-do list/timeline my way through things. So 2015 was a bit of an upending of every part of my nature. I have learned, in no uncertain terms, that I am not […]
Hospitals and Rainbows (1/4/2016)
Oh, how one phone call can change everything. We were up in the Tahoe/Carson City area, just our family of four, enjoying some time away after our college student and high school student finished finals and my dad was home from skilled nursing as he was recovering from a broken hip. The weather was snowy and beautiful, we were loving […]