Happy Friday friends! This week has been an emotional one around here, as I’ve already talked about. Amid the sorrow, there has been much joy. I have always loved butterflies, but since Bryan’s death, they have come to have special significance, as I described in a Facebook post shortly after he passed: This morning, I…
This week, my family celebrates the birth of my baby brother and commemorates his untimely death. As you can imagine, it’s an emotional time. I have made a habit of writing a post in his honor each year. (2016 & 2017). It’s just one of the ways I pay tribute to Bryan. Mostly, I do…
Happy Friday friends! I hope this week brought many smiles to your face. Mine brought more hiking (two in one week!) and a surprise visit from a friend. What could be better than that? Let’s start with the hikes. The first one was Lake Catherine via Brighton Lakes Trail with two of my lovely sisters. Spending…
Have you ever caught yourself saying, “As soon as I get through [fill in the blank with your crisis du jour], then life will get back to normal?” But what is normal really? Turns out Heraclitus wasn’t wrong when he said, “The only thing that is constant is change.” Once we give up the expectation…
Happy Friday! It’s been a while since I’ve done thank you notes, so I think it’s time. Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.” ~William Arthur Ward Thank you Cindy for inviting me to go on a hike. Thank you Mother Nature for providing this grandeur (Wild…
You may not realize it yet, but we could all use a little more hygge in our lives. Hygge is challenging to pronounce (hue-gah), and even more difficult to define, but I hope by the time you finish reading this post, you will recognize the hygge in your life and have a plan for increasing…
Happy Friday my friends! I hope all is well with you. It has been an unusually eventful week for me. As always, I have much for which to be grateful. This week marked the long-awaited moving day from our old office to a brand new beautiful building. To be honest, it was bittersweet. I’ve worked…
Today I have the privilege of writing a guest post for Janis’s GratiTuesday series. Here’s a little taste. I hope you’ll hop over to Retirementally Challenged to read the full post. While you’re there, check out the rest of her blog. You won’t regret it. I’m not a morning person—or more accurately, I don’t like…
I am honored to be a guest on Leanne’s Cresting the Hill today. Join me over a virtual cup of coffee, won’t you? While you are there, look around her blog, if you haven’t already. It’s pretty great.
Today is the official start of summer, and therefore, the beginning of the Summer Bucket List link-up. I’m excited about the items on my list this season, and I can’t wait to hear about yours, but first let’s wrap up the Spring Bucket List. Spring Bucket List Health and fitness Train for and complete the…
