You can’t pour from an empty cup. Travis has been home for nearly five months. Time is intangible, it seems like he’s been home for merely weeks and that he never actually left all at the same time. Relationships work really well when you both are able to pour into it rather than need something […]
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Hansel & Gretel
What was your favorite story as a child? Snow White? Cinderella? Jack & Jill? Jack & the Bean Stalk? I was captivated by Hansel & Gretel as a kid although I don’t ever remember asking for the story to be read to me. What I do remember is staring at the illustrations in the book, […]
Take Out the Trash
I tried something new Saturday morning that will give you a good laugh. I love trying new things, don’t you?! As I went through my morning, I randomly got a whiff of a distinct funk here and there. And as the morning passed, the frequency of this funk increased, and the intensity of the funk […]
Second Nature Yet Foreign
Hand in hand, just as we departed ways 11 months earlier, we reconnected. Travis has been home for nearly six weeks! We celebrated our anniversary TOGETHER and shared Christmas with family. Seeing my family reconnect and embrace him was purely bliss! But getting to our family’s reunification was a long and tumultuous path. I never […]
Shelter & Energy
We as a people have evolved enormously since the days of Little House on the Prairie. Having been raised on a farm, beginning my education in a one room country school with no other students my age, and experiencing the simplicity of this lifestyle my heart yearns for the values I learned through those experiences […]
Nourish & Hydrate
If you’re not sitting down, please sit down before you read this. If you don’t already know this, it might be a lot to drink in, pun intended. Our food and water supplies are used against us. Some are as bold to say they are poisonous, and by the end of this blog you will […]
Travis Update
Let’s talk about one of my favorite humans and explore his experiences thus far!! For a short period of time, Travis was moved upstairs. You may recall, Travis started out in an open dorm type housing unit that had an open room holding up to 60 occupants. Prior to a planned shakedown that housing unit […]
The Media Machine
There is nothing better after a long, hard week of work to relax and cut loose, right? The indulgence of having fun and being carefree! This is the way human nature has progressed for centuries. Think back to the time of the Roman Gladiators who fought in the coliseums. The spectators in attendance would booze […]
Toot Your Own Horn
Today we laid to rest my grandfather who preferred to be addressed as Gramps. Gramps had a bit of a rough start to life, and his parents weren’t confident he would survive very long after birth. His resilience was palpable and what unfolded was an incredibly full life of 96 years and 47 days between […]
We’ll Do What They Can’t
There have been a couple more releases from the “Twitter Files”. If I were to sum it up into one sentence, I would say my main take away from these two releases were that government funded organizations and agencies were helping to monitor and censor speech where the government knew it could not legally take […]