Well it happened. The weather turned. I guess I ran out of my “one more perfect day to climb outside” cache for the year. You know what I keep thinking about though? It’s how productive I get when faced with a morning run on the treadmill. Seriously, it’s like, gotta fold that laundry, empty this […]
It’s been years since I was in school (11 to be exact) but each year around this time I start to get that feeling. You know the one. The one where you look outside at those beautiful blue skies and you feel a physical ache somewhere in your chest. The one where you don’t hear […]
As the days are fluctuating between 80 degrees and 30 degrees I’ve really had enough of it. I’m ready for summer. So I obviously saw this while mindlessly scrolling Facebook on one of the 30 degree days: “Encouraging a child to go outside in all weather builds resilience, but more importantly it saves them from […]
I am tired and I will blame daylight savings time and the fact that winter isn’t over yet. I am tired but I still went out to find adventure because it was 73 degrees and sunny and I felt too alive to contain myself. I’m thankful to the friend who thought up the adventure because […]
Without a plan I am lost. Like really lost. I wander aimlessly, I pick stuff up and put it down. I look into the refrigerator, searching for answers I know aren’t there. I am paralyzed by too many choices for what to do that I most often do nothing. Don’t worry, I know there is […]
I feel like the days have been filled with lifetimes. It’s like the days are buzzing. I feel like it’s summer, only it’s 15 degrees as I write this. And sometimes I feel like I get away from myself. Like one minute I have a few plans, and the next minute I have 11,000 plans and am […]
Yesterday I spent my 12,045th day breathing on this earth and I know well enough by now that there will never be enough days for all the things I love. There will never be enough days spent with my nieces, swimming in hotel swimming pools and having slumber parties for their birthdays. There will never […]
This year I wanted to try and find reasons to like winter. No easy task. Now I am not going to say I forgive winter for everything that is awful about it but I will say that this one has been filled with a lot of the ferocious joy I usually only associate with summer […]
There are so many different kinds of tired. There’s the semi-delusional I Haven’t Slept in Days kind. There’s the kind where everything is funny even though it’s really not. There’s the kind of tired you feel at work, you know, when you’re inexplicably tired all day until the clock strikes 4 and you’re suddenly not […]
There’s a British TV show called Doctor Who and one of their Christmas specials says “On every world, wherever people are, in the deepest part of the winter, at the exact midpoint, everybody stops, and turns, and hugs, as if to say “Well done. Well done, everyone! We’re halfway out of the dark.” Back on […]
