This weekend I had an amazing opportunity to come together around a round table, in a small beach town on the coast of South Carolina with eight amazing women. When I was making the decision a few years ago to leave the Mormon church, one of my biggest fears was leaving the sense of community …
NYC
For high school graduation we offered both kids the opportunity to travel where ever -- literally. Kenzie always wanted to see NYC. Now, Kenz graduated in 2018 but with the move, etc., we needed to delay the trip until this year. We arrived on Wednesday to our flat in the Bedford-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, about …
To new adventures…
Once upon a time I was a successful leader and free car driver in a well known skin care company. I fell into it quite by mistake at a time when I thought pedaling lipstick was beneath me. I was an executive for a healthcare software company at the time, traveling around the country and …
Movin’ & groovin’
Thought I would give an update from my "determination" post from last week or so. Things are good and seemingly back on track. I have decided to go all-in health wise because I know I can't exercise a crappy diet and I can't eat myself to a toned body. Exercise and healthy eating go hand …
Mother’s Day
Mother's Day for me is a generally happy holiday. I have two beautiful young adult children who I love and who love me. I have a doting husband who goes out of his way to make me feel appreciated every day, but especially this day. And this year was no different. My daughter and I …
Determined…
Today is day 3 of exercise this week. I have to say day 1 & 2 were rough, but day 3 was good. Probably bc I was highly motivated by the scale today, which isn't the norm for me. Having lost more than -100 lbs post weight loss surgery two years ago I tend to …
Gathering…
Tuesday night we officially celebrated the passing of another semester of bible study. This semester Tammy and I team-taught Angie Smith's wonderful study called "Seamless". It goes from Genesis to Revelations in seven weeks and shows how the books connect to one another, not always in the order you find them in the Bible, but …
Getting my gardening on…
I am so excited -- now that we've been in the house a year and it's springtime I get to start putting in a flower garden. Something I have always dreamed of living in the south -- a lovely, drippy, leaning-to-english styled flower garden. A place to sit and be peaceful, to ponder and enjoy. …
I feel so “mother Earth”…
Over the last year or so I've tried to be more aware of what I'm putting in to our environment at home -- I'm not great about it, but I'm trying. Today, I feel so "earthy", I actually made from scratch laundry soap. No joke. I am a subscriber to all things Joanna Gaines including …
