Self-reflections

The Game of Life

I love games. I grew up in a household where we played games on a very regular basis. When my husband and I were first dating I told him, to give him a heads up, that we were ‘a game playing family’. My statement to him was, yes, a heads up, but also I wantedContinue reading “The Game of Life”

Therapy Session

I sit here at my dining room table feeling…feeling what? I have a big mug of tumeric ginger tea by my laptop, full and very hot. It’s still steeping. The tumeric ginger tea isn’t a fancy brand, it’s the cheap-o kind I got at the supermarket, but it’s decaf which is the important part. DecafContinue reading “Therapy Session”

The Question

Often, in life, one of the main questions we hear, and are asked, starting when we are children and especially when we are teens and going into college, is, ‘What do you want to do with your life?’ We hear this question over and over and over again. It comes from outside sources: well-meaning parents,Continue reading “The Question”

Making Soap

You all know that I enjoy writing in a journal. My journal is mostly stream-of-conscious writing, whatever I feel like I need to emotionally process, or want to record, write down, or want to remember something significant for the future. In short, it’s whatever the heck I feel like writing. Sometimes I look back onContinue reading “Making Soap”

Discipline

In my last post I shared a couple of tips that have been helping me to focus while I’ve been working at home. How is that going for me? It was a new thing for me when I shared those tips, so I wanted to circle back now that it’s been a few weeks…how areContinue reading “Discipline”

The Temporary Concreteness of Life

Grief is starting to feel familiar. I’ve been introspective lately. I get like that. Often. Or am I just like that? Our lives are temporary. We live in a temporary world, where life happens fast and moments are transient and days run into one another and we wonder where they went to and how didContinue reading “The Temporary Concreteness of Life”

Journaling

On a recent Sunday evening, my ten year old niece was looking through the pictures on my phone. I was sitting next to her on the couch, supervising. I know there isn’t anything racey on my camera, but who knows what can happen when a ten year old has my phone. So Gretta was sittingContinue reading “Journaling”

Missing Piece

I’ve been processing things (ie, life) with a therapist. With a lot going on inside me and my overwhelm with things outside of me (Job, biz, family, volunteering, marriage, etc) having time to process all of these things with someone who has a outside perspective is incredibly helpful. Today, feeling very stuck and at aContinue reading “Missing Piece”

September

September is my birthday month. When I was younger both my dad and mom would write a yearly birthday letter to me. Yesterday evening I felt I should read through some of the letters they had written to me. I knew it would be emotional and hard and I’d probably cry, but I felt itContinue reading “September”

The Wrestle

I want to share my creative pursuits with you. I want to share my books with you. I want to share my journals with you. There’s nothing stopping me from doing that. Or maybe I am the one stopping myself. I started this blog in December of 2019 and didn’t touch it for four months.Continue reading “The Wrestle”