A sailboat is going by and it very much looks like a pirate ship. It’s progress is steady though it seems to only drift along the water, a solitary vessel. The mountains are a shadow behind the clouds. I’ve gone outside to sit and be, to take a few moments to allow my mind to [...]
I have gathered different bits of information over the past few years about this plot of land. Though I do not know for a fact that any of my conclusions are true, but my observations are. We have walked by this place regularly for years and have seen its evolution. All things change and we [...]
Today is my mom’s birthday. She would be 58 years old. A few weeks ago Mummy died unexpectedly. Cancer, it seems, had quietly ravaged her entire body. There has been so much to think about regarding her life, her death, and our relationship. Our relationship was really hard and for over a decade I did [...]
Earth Day. This year for the first time I celebrated St. Patrick’s Day. I never remember celebrating it growing up and I don’t know whether this is true or not, but I have always remembered thinking that all the wearing green, dying rivers green, and drinking green beer was for Americans. And, that most American’s [...]
As we have come to realize that living a financially sustainable life is important to us being able to living a holistically sustainable life, we have arrived at a method that works for us…most of the time. We have put all our debt on a dry erase board with the total at the top and [...]
Kendall and I have been working on paying off our debt. We have quite a bit of it. Most of it is student loans, but there are other significant bits of debt too. It has accumulated over the years, in various ways for various reasons. While I have never felt that living in debt was okay, [...]
This New Year’s Eve Kendall and I were having a small conversation over how the New Year that we celebrate does not internally feel like we are entering a new year; we join in the tradition, but it feels like forcing a puzzle piece that does not fit. Perhaps, it is simply that we want [...]
Being a mama has taught me that the most important thing I can do to care for my son is be present and available to him. It has also shown me that that is really what all of us need. We need people to be present and available to us. Sometimes that takes the form [...]
Time flows differently now since the birth of my son. Its meaning has changed, as has its texture, feel, and presence in my life. I mark time differently and I feel its mark on me as having fresh strokes; wet, earthy strokes against my skin. With the birth of my son, a door opened for [...]
For most of adulthood I have not known what I wanted to do with my life. Well, that’s not completely true. What I didn’t know was what job I wanted to apply for. I knew a lot about myself. I knew I was good at taking care of people and took great pleasure in doing [...]