'Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.'-Joan Didion I have usually used this Joan Didion quote in reference to grief and living a life in the before and after. A before and after I have had for nearly 30 years. But this year, it took on a deeper resonance and one filled with joy … Continue reading A Life Changing Year
'I don’t know where I’m going from here, but I promise it won’t be boring.'-D. Bowie I can honestly say that where 2021 has ended is beyond anything I could have imagined. In January, I was going through a hard time. Covid had made things uncertain, I missed my family, live anything, and trying to … Continue reading A Year in Review: Life Changes
'Don't go through life, grow through life.' - Eric Butterworth If you had told me in January, as I was learning to embrace my new town while mending a broken heart, that that would be the high point of normalcy, I would have laughed because, well, look around. But I (and we) made it! This … Continue reading A Year in Review: Life in the Time of Corona
‘You’ll learn, as you get older, that rules are made to be broken. Be bold enough to live life on your terms, and never, ever apologize for it. Go against the grain, refuse to conform, take the road less traveled instead of the well-beaten path. Laugh in the face of adversity, and leap before you … Continue reading Adventures in Oregon: One Year in Bend
I really love Norman! 'The only person you need to be better than is the person you were yesterday.'-Jenny Lawson The end of the year is always a time for reflection and 2019, I can honestly say, was the greatest year of my life. I began the year in Iceland and concluded it in Oregon. … Continue reading Year in Review: FURIOUSLY HAPPY Movement in Action
'If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.'-Bob Dylan I have never been much of a resolutions kind of person. As a kid, I loved New Years. My parents would throw a party, my friends and I would be upstairs listening to Mariah Carey, at 9 we would watch the … Continue reading A Year in Review: ‘You Have to Live Them’
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