I read an article a couple of weeks ago that won't stop buzzing around in my brain like an irritating house fly. I feel the urge to pick at it like a ripe scab; take it apart, exam its premise and file it under nonsense....
I spend a lot of my day in motion--cleaning, cooking, carting--basically, careening from one moment to the next. It's a perpetual cycle of ups and downs, back and forths, over here, to over there, go, go, gone. On the surface, there isn't much to show...
I hate the word victim. To me, it evokes feelings of helplessness, weakness, passivity--of being life's doormat. All of these things stand in antithesis to how I see myself. I consider myself someone who takes control of their life. Someone who takes responsibility and makes...
One of my best friends is on the fence about having children, but I'm not, I told her not to. My advice isn't because I regret becoming a mother, or that I think she'd be a bad one--on the contrary. I know she'd be a...
A fuse that led to the fate of the rest of my life was lit and burned for five helpless minutes. In the sixty seconds that followed those five minutes, it reached its target and detonated my heart inside my chest. Now, I will never...
Right now I am on vacation with my two children, husband, my parents and in-laws. The eight of us rented a house for seven days near Mt. Rainier National Park which is roughly two hours from my house, door-to-door. Mt. Rainier is the tallest mountain...
I believe in Karma.
The word Karma comes from Eastern religions such as Hindu and Buddhism. The literal translation is "action" or "deed," but it is understood as that which causes an entire cycle of cause and effect. Although its origins are ancient, it has been...
I'm a little embarrassed to admit this (so when has that stopped me?) but the biggest shock I received when I became a new parent was how needy newborns were. Crazy right? Like I totally should have known this going into to it. Like, of course you dumbass...
A good friend of mine posted this quote on her Facebook wall a couple of weeks ago and I have been thinking about it since:
If you are depressed you are living in the past.
If you are anxious you are living in the future.
If you are...
I love cemeteries. In one of my college media classes I was given an assignment to create a video using the principles of visual composition. I chose to shoot it at a cemetery that didn't allow head stones. The barren, rolling hills dotted with vases of flowers made...
