life

  • Make It A Good Day

    Maybe it is just because it is summer and we have more hours of daylight, but I always enjoy doing little things to make the day more enjoyable which makes the week more enjoyable.  Little things outside of the normal routine that make the day feel more like a holiday….

  • Documenting

    When there is something you don’t want to forget, do you write it down in a notebook?  I am talking about memories and things said. Yesterday, I was home with my sick younger son, Owen and he was telling me lots of stories of his world.  At one point, he…

  • ISS Story

    Last week I talked about how sharing little snippets of a story through illustrations is a method of story telling that I am drawn to. I am not the crowd-talking type, who can talk to large groups and have all the attention on me for the duration of a story….

  • Comparisons

    I saw a little blurb on social media last week (I forget where) about not letting the internet fool you – and here is what stuck out: “no one is posting failures.”  Seems obvious enough.  Of course people aren’t posting failures.  Posts we share are curated to show the positive…