…if you can convince yourself. Here’s how. I didn’t want to write tonight. I wanted to turn my mind into idiot mode and watch a bunch of short videos that would satiate the dopamine in my brain until it turned me into a fully sedated human being. Truth be told…

It’s more than just a boredom buster It has been ages since I have changed the furniture around in my house. But, a couple of days ago, my husband was cleaning behind the couch and we decided to try something different… something different that made absolutely no sense that made…

Reunited and it feels so good You know how everyone has their thing? Wait, does everyone have their thing? Let me think about the people that I know… WAIT, first I want to say that it’s easy to lose your ‘thing’ when you get a bunch of responsibilities as an…

and completely exhausting I thought this week was going to be a good one, but it came with a lot of challenges for me emotionally. This could be because I’m PMS’ing or because my dad’s dead or because I feel like no one that I know knows what I’m going…

and how I’m trying really hard to make it feel that way I have been uncomfortable in my body since I was a kid. Very uncomfortable. I used to lay in bed in elementary school with my knees bent skyward and my feet flat on the bed so that I…

And the sharks come out and you don’t want to go in the water Don’t you love it when you have multiple kids and the ship is coasting on crystal clear, calm waters with nothing but blue skies as far as the eye can see? Nothing but tropical bird sounds…

Don’t throw away what you’ve started to build. It wasn’t for nothing. Before I found out that the Olympic marathon trials time had gone down to 2:37, I had a very clear vision for how my life was to be run — a very clear path. Eating healthy, going to…

Everyone goes through stuff. What’s the point of telling what you’re going through? Hey. Hi. You might think your experiences and feelings aren’t that important or significant because lots of people go through the same stuff that you do. I thought this, too. I started writing something (a book? a…

I’m having a hard time making them coexist I have a friend who lost her father a week after I lost mine. Not identical scenarios (her father died over a period of months, mine in an instant). I don’t think one is worse or better than the other. Death is…