It’s ironic that after my latest post, gushing on about my house and projects and life here in Detroit and how grateful I am that I’m about to follow that up with this. But, this is my sacred space, and I need to vent. I don’t do well with limbo. Especially when it comes to taking risks and wanting change. I do it time and … Continue reading Mid-Week
I have other drafts going, per usual, but instead I’m writing new. I’m currently sitting in my backyard, watching the fire die in my fire pit that I built myself (!) on a perfect summer evening of 75 degrees. There’s a slight breeze, the birds are chirping, and the faint sound of traffic drones on. I hear neighbors talking intermittently and I sit here thinking … Continue reading I don’t know – an update I guess
I have been choosing words for my years since 2015. As I lined them up a month ago, I began to see a visual of my life. This visual was a mountain and the past five years was me climbing it. But even the five years before that was filled with growth, change, pain, and a lot of learning. Let’s take look back at the … Continue reading 2020: Reflection
It’s ironic how much I’ve been agonizing over my 2020 post and feeling so lost on what all to write, and I hadn’t given a thought on my 2019 recap post. However, I always find my words forward when I look back. Man, how to even encapsulate it all? Fun stuff: I went to Ireland I knew going into 2019 that it was going to … Continue reading 2019: Soar – Recap
Friendships are hard and complicated and filled with conflicts & resolutions, hurt feelings, laughter, tears and joy. My friendships have been the training ground on which I’ve learned communication, loyalty, forgiveness (both receiving and extending), and the importance of learning when to push through and fight for a friendship or when to let it go. I’ve learned all of those lessons with my best friend. … Continue reading Friendships & Self-Care
Ugh. I’m torn on if I even really want to write right now, but I’m afraid if I don’t, I’ll just end up with many emo quotes on my Instagram account, and well, this is a safer option I think. I’m so fucking lonely. I feel like I’ve said that sentence a million times both in my head and outloud over the past few months. … Continue reading Going through it
“Blood is thicker than water.” My family life has been complicated. I’ve written about my struggles before, written about the need to distance myself from my family, and have written about my friend-family and how my core friends have truly become humans as close to family as I can get. Up until this past weekend, I would have said that I absolutely did not believe … Continue reading A Grandmother’s Passing
I’m poking my head out from my little hole tonight and finally taking some time & space to post a catch-up/musings post on 2019. I’m sitting here laughing because I intentionally stated in my 2019 post that this blog wouldn’t act as a measuring stick any longer and that my posts would be more free-flowing, but I’m sitting here trying to work out in my … Continue reading Mid-Year Catch-Up
I found a new doctor. Thrilling, huh? I know it’s kind of a strange topic to blog about, but I really, really miss my team of doctors in Seattle, and since moving, I’ve just had a hard time finding a primary physician to replace them. But, I’ve found one (even though the freaking wait list was 3 months long). I’m not sure I think she’s … Continue reading Bodies and Health and Food and Minds
Here I am, within this beautiful space where I can lose myself in my words, my feelings, and the space to create. Here I am allowed to babble and rant and rave to my heart’s content without knowing judgement or feeling shame. I am free, I can fly. This week I was faced with a peek into a reality that I want, only to have … Continue reading On feeling exposed
