Life- The Uncut Version

As I sit and think back on the past 12 months I’m filled with gratitude. I am grateful for steadfast friendships and for those who demonstrated they weren’t worth negotiating my peace for. I’m grateful for the new friendships I’ve forged and look forward to nurturing those connections in the next year and beyond. I’m grateful for the many challenges I faced and for the ways those moments forced me to stretch and grow....

2024 As I sit and think back on the past 12 months I’m filled with gratitude. I am grateful for steadfast friendships and for those who demonstrated they weren’t worth negotiating my peace for. I’m grat…

I was daydreaming today of us in a beautiful home. Small and quaint but bursting with love. It has a gorgeous garden and fireplace with embers still warm from last night. A vase on the kitchen table with flowers from our walk yesterday. Pictures of our kids and grandkids hang on the wall, as do photos of the extraordinary life we've made together....

Daydreams I was daydreaming today of us in a beautiful home. Small and quaint but bursting with love. It has a gorgeous garden and fireplace with embers still warm from last night. A vase on the kitchen tabl…

This natural cadence exists between us; we ebb and flow so effortlessly - meeting the other where they are. Our exchange of energies is soft, tender, and intentional, yet so charged with emotion that a tightness builds in my chest and my brain questions the reality I see and feel before me. You send goosebumps racing across my skin with your gentle tone and sweet words....

Falling This natural cadence exists between us; we ebb and flow so effortlessly – meeting the other where they are. Our exchange of energies is soft, tender, and intentional, yet so charged with emot…

I’m angry, because I gave so much and you stood by and watched me drown. You stood on the shore and told me to paddle harder instead of offering a hand. You complained about your needs without noticing that I’d become skin and bones trying to meet yours and everyone else’s. A hollow shell of the woman I once was- begging to find something that felt authentic and real and whole....

Angry I’m angry, because I gave so much and you stood by and watched me drown. You stood on the shore and told me to paddle harder instead of offering a hand. You complained about your needs without noti…

I am trying to relax my mind and let all the things I want to tell you simply come into focus; to drift to the surface softly and naturally, with forgiving edges, like rings blown from smoke. Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik It’s weird to feel so moved to share these things with you. To expose my jugular so willingly and with such abandon as to risk you simply reaching forward ripping it out....

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Compelled I am trying to relax my mind and let all the things I want to tell you simply come into focus; to drift to the surface softly and naturally, with forgiving edges, like rings blown from smoke. Image…

I am not really sure where to begin, but somehow feel compelled to write something. There have been so many changes since my last post. Four new houses (for four separate members of my family), one new school, and a divorce. It's a strange feeling to blow your life up. To declare out loud that your marriage is over. To begin a new job in the same week you close on your new home and move to a new city for the first time in 17 years....

Deafening Quiet I am not really sure where to begin, but somehow feel compelled to write something. There have been so many changes since my last post. Four new houses (for four separate members of my family), one…

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I’m thankful for the time we shared. I felt so numb and broken before you. But you made me realize I’m neither of those things. You made me laugh so hard my sides hurt and tears rolled down my face. You made me feel seen - truly seen. You supported and challenged and comforted when I needed it. You made me feel alive again- in a way that wasn’t tied to a role I’m supposed to be filling in this life....

Thankful I’m thankful for the time we shared. I felt so numb and broken before you. But you made me realize I’m neither of those things. You made me laugh so hard my sides hurt and tears rolled down my face…

It’s a weird thing to think about when you’ve spent so long making sure everyone around you was ok…what is it that fills my cup? And what does that even mean? What does a full cup look like? Sometimes I drift in my mind, back to a younger version of myself and I try to remember what excited me then. What adventures did I want to have?...

Filling My Cup It’s a weird thing to think about when you’ve spent so long making sure everyone around you was ok…what is it that fills my cup? And what does that even mean? What does a full cup look like? Someti…

There is a scene at the end of Under The Tuscan Sun, where it’s brought to Francis’s attention that she got everything she asked for- even though it doesn’t look like what she thought it would ( I recently moved one city over from the only place I’ve ever lived in Texas. It’s a much smaller town, with less stuff to do, places to eat, and stores for grocery shopping....

Everything I wanted There is a scene at the end of Under The Tuscan Sun, where it’s brought to Francis’s attention that she got everything she asked for- even though it doesn’t look like what she thought it would ( I …

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A woman I went to high school with recently shared on Facebook that Life cereal has genetically engineered/bioengineered ingredients in it. The manufacturer doesn’t exactly advertise this on the front of the box, so many an unsuspecting consumer tosses it in their buggy and moves on to the next item on the grocery list. And I LOVE that she shared this....

Mom Guilt A woman I went to high school with recently shared on Facebook that Life cereal has genetically engineered/bioengineered ingredients in it. The manufacturer doesn’t exactly advertise this on the fr…