“You’ve gotta find the will to keep going, because I promise you, someone else will” – Rachel Hollis No, I haven’t read “Girl Wash Your Face” yet (although the title is perfection). But I’ve read enough of Rachel’s posts and listened to her podcasts that I get the gist, and she’s a total girl boss… Read More My Version of The Last 90 Days
It’s Seattle’s most iconic landmark. And it recently got a big facelift. Including the addition of the world’s only revolving glass floor. Since it recently held its big grand reopening, I thought it would be fun to look back at how it once looked before we go back and try the new and improved version.… Read More The Space Needle & Brunch
It’s Friday before a long Memorial Day weekend and in a few hours we are taking the dogs and heading North on the Pacific Northwest coast, almost to Canada basically. We always get an itch to travel on this weekend and get out of Seattle. It’s a great bookend to all the hours worked in… Read More Long Weekend Getaways in the PNW
It’s been three months married, and I still want to go back and redo it all again! Including our crazy awesome honeymoon. Because when you’re already halfway to New Zealand for your wedding, and have no desire to head back to the US mainland anytime soon, you go to New Zealand to honeymoon! If you… Read More New Zealand Kiwi Honeymoon
Things have been in a rapid state of change for the last year, and especially the last month. And you know what? It’s been pretty great. Last week marked one month since I started a new job in Seattle, which is very different than my previous one working from the Midwest out of Kansas… Read More Been Talkin’ About the Way Things Change
Palm Springs. A private 1920’s hotel. Perfect weather. California glamor. Synchronized swimmers. Coozies. Flowers and palms. Pretty much all you need to know about the one of a kind wedding of my friend Ellen that we were lucky enough to get to attend a few months ago. It’s Valentine’s Day, and I thought, why not… Read More Palm Springs In The Name of Love
You can pack a lot of punches into twelve months. If someone would have told me last January 12th that the next day I would go on a date with my soul mate and never look back, I would have been so excited. (Warning, this is a sappy, sappy post.) I was already excited to… Read More The Journey of a Year
In about 24 hours we are heading down to SoCal from Seattle to hike, explore and camp in Joshua Tree National Park (still hitting up those National Parks for the 100th birthday) for two days, then going on to Palm Springs for a best friend, Ellen’s, wedding. While I’m loving Seattle, I’m more than excited… Read More A Toast To Palm Springs
Somehow in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life. We tend to forget that we are part of the natural scheme of things. – Pema Chodron This post has been rumbling around inside of me for two months (not long after my… Read More Aurevoir Paris of the Plains – waving goodbye to KC from 30,000 feet up
Let your mother know you’re safe And by the time she wakes We’ll have driven through the state The Lumineers About one month out from our amazing western road trip, and I’m still a little bit in awe of how great it was. I was a little worried about spending so much time in the car… Read More It’s About The Journey, Not So Much The Destination