Book recommendation: The Flower Arrangement

Book recommendation: The Flower Arrangement

Well, I’m traveling, so you know what that means—besides lots of vacation pics on the next Friday Favorites—there will be a book recommendation in the near future. I thought I might as well get on with it, since I finished a good one early in the trip: The Flower Arrangement by Ella Griffin. The Flower…

Friday favorites: this and that

Friday favorites: this and that

Another week with much to celebrate–from a funny candy wrapper to my beautiful grandchildren to a much anticipated trip to Mazatlan! Let’s get started. Solid advice from Dove Chocolates. Now I just need to start an argument… So proud of these boys! They worked hard for their spots on the respective Cottonwood High soccer teams. Congratulations…

Friday favorites: home sweet home

Friday favorites: home sweet home

While it was difficult to leave our good friends… The warm weather… And the beautiful sunsets… This Friday Favorites focuses on my favorite things about coming home. For example, good neighbors like the one who shoveled our walks, so we didn’t come home to this. (These photos were taken 36 hours later. It’s hard to believe just…

Life at El Sol La Vida

Life at El Sol La Vida

Since I am officially on vacation, I won’t be writing my usual Tuesday post, but I couldn’t let the opportunity slip by to share some of my favorite photos from Nuevo Mazatlan. If you are looking for a place to go on your next vacation, I highly recommend El Sol La Vida! The view from…

Friday favorites: a picture a day

Friday favorites: a picture a day

Friday, December 23   Saturday, December 24   Sunday, December 25   Monday, December 26   Tuesday, December 27   Wednesday, December 28   Thursday, December 29   What was the highlight of your week?

Friday favorites from Kaua’i

Friday favorites from Kaua’i

It’s going to be hard to limit myself to a manageable number of favorites this week. I told myself I’d choose a picture a day, but I may have to stretch that to two in some cases. Friday: On our way to Kauai. I felt it was fitting to read a book about beach life…

Time for some R&R: cultivating play and rest

Time for some R&R: cultivating play and rest

The opposite of play is not work—the opposite of play is depression. ~Dr. Stuart Brown, psychiatrist This month’s guidepost is all about the importance of play and rest. How appropriate that it coincided with the month in which we had a vacation scheduled—a trip to Hawaii. What better place to play and rest? Of course,…

Mazatlán Part II

Mazatlán Part II

For Part 2 of the visit Mazatlán travel blog post, I chose one photo to represent each day. I hope these photos of the day give you a sense of how incredible this trip was. Day 4 brought a freak ice storm—and by ice, I mean ice crystals the size of eggs with sharp, irregular edges. Ouch! Even…

Coming to you from beautiful Nuevo Mazatlán

Coming to you from beautiful Nuevo Mazatlán

I am writing today’s blog from El Sol La Vida in beautiful Nuevo Mazatlán. I feel so blessed to be in a position where we can travel to such wonderful places. Don’t get me wrong, We’ve worked hard to get to this point of our lives, but I also recognize that there is some good fortune involved as…

People who need people

People who need people

In life, there are millions of human contacts and sometimes an unexpected meeting changes the trajectory through space and time just ever so slightly and nothing remains the same…In this world of mass confusion and hurried existence, human contact still continues to be the most profound impact in our short lives. ~Sim Gill I started…