Lessons of a life lived thankfully.
I turned 37 this week. Holy moly, THIRTY SEVEN! This means that I’ve now outlived Hank, Jesus, & Marilyn in terms of years spent on this spinning rock we call home. I won’t lie to you, 36 was an interesting trip around the sun for me. I had some amazingly high highs, & some killer …
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Goodbye, Commute. Hello, 'Me Time.' I recently had three weeks at home between jobs. Well, really, only one week between them – but I spent the last two weeks at my old job tying up projects from home. But that's all beside the point. What I got, was three weeks of not having to fight …
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It's 11am on a Tuesday in Auckland, New Zealand & I've just flown in from Los Angeles. Before you ask, no, I didn't do the literal flying. The pilots did, obvs (*insert Dad Joke about tired wings from all that flying here*) Right now my mind, body, & soul are balanced. Why? Well, for almost every …
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Friday. FriYAY. Saturday Jr.Whatever you call it, Friday is our collective Bae Day. Hard not to love even the thought of it rolling around again (especially if you're sitting on Sunday night or Monday morning), right? With a typical work week, we give different meanings & values to each day. C'mon, we all do it. …
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I hope you feel uncomfortable, uneasy, and understandably upset while reading this. Super uncomfortable, even. Uncomfortable enough to want to click away to something more jaunty, more on-the-surface. Less laden with hurt, and less truth-filled. But, fight the discomfort. Keep reading. Why? Because I want you to change, even in the smallest way. I want …
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This year has been a time to find my feet. To walk, crawl, run, stumble, jump, and skip as far as I can... even if my feet have had to go backwards or sideways to eventually end up moving me forward.
Okay, okay... I've been fairly lax on the posting-my-best-photos-monthly front. Why? Because, busy. Busy with work, with family, with travel & adventuring... basically, sneaky 'ol Life got in the way of being bloggerific. And yeah, the 'glorification of busy' is a thing... so I need to stop using busy-ness as an excuse for not doing …
Let's be honest. From the moment Bowie died, the wheels started to fall off for 2016. The fact that the universe began tilting askew only ten days into the year should've been worrying at the time. And, with the beauty of hindsight to look back on, the passing of such a gargantuan icon so early …
