Fall in love with being alive
This week we got snow. Just when I had the hope it was all going to be over. This week I learned first aid (again) and CPR for the first time. This week I wondered, what have I actually learned? During First Aid training I remembered some things from Wilderness First Aid. Does that mean […]
What do you say when you are self-destructing on the inside? For me, I say nothing, which makes writing a blog post hard. I think the actual advice is to try speaking to yourself the way you would speak to a friend who was feeling the same way. So to my friend, I say; it’s […]
This week we saw temperatures from 55 degrees to 8 degrees and so I feel split in two. I am torn between winter adventures that must be done now and summer adventures that I need to be planned before time runs out. For winter I am thinking of another try at snowboarding, cross country skiing, […]
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 […]
My youngest niece turned 1 in December and it got me thinking about how much we change in a year. It’s so easy to see it in her. A year ago she was a squashy, helpless bundle that I could hold with one hand. Now she’s walking, chasing balloons, eating cupcakes and doing things. With […]
