The Tilt O Whirl of Life

Life is like a Tilt O Whirl really. It keeps spinning all the time. Sometimes it’s really fun, exhilarating, slightly terrifying but thrilling. Sometimes it’s so fun that your cheeks hurt from smiling. Sometimes it’s goes too fast. Sometimes it spins you right into something tragic, heartbreaking, and terrible and all you want to do … Read more

Weekend Wanderings–Birthday Celebration

Yesterday was a sweet day of celebrating with my family. What were we celebrating? Me! It’s that time of year where I turn another year older and because Matt won’t be here for my actual birthday we celebrated early. I was pretty sad about turning 35, gulp, (I remember my mom turning 35 and thinking … Read more

Are You Comfortable with Emotion? Am I?

A few weeks ago it was a down right crappy week. I felt overwhelmed with sadness at times, hopeless that things could or would change, a serious heart pain really. Then that sadness moved to intense anger. The emotions were brought on by real, hard, ongoing events. I have no control over them and as … Read more