Christmas seems to arrive a little earlier every year, and this year it feels like we went from Halloween to full blown Christmas in about ten days time. I returned from a trip last week to find my hometown transformed. The store are twinkling with lights, garland,...

Do you ever feel overwhelmed by your closet and simultaneously underwhelmed by the contents? Do you find that you’ve amassed a collection of different pieces that seems more like a time capsule of your life and less like those cute capsule wardrobe that people talk...

If seasons teach us anything, and fall most of all, they shows us that life changes, trees and flowers change, and each day is a thing of its own unique beauty. The very beautiful days are the most precious and fleeting gifts, but they’re all gifts, really. Having a...

If you’re like me, you’ve seen the adds a plenty on social media for Grove Collaborative. I was finally lured in to giving it a try recently and I thought I’d share my experience with you. This is neither sponsored, nor an ad. This is just a regular mom with a careful...

Children’s books can be the most meaningful five minute reads, whether you have a child on your lap, you’re standing alone in the bookstore, or you’re reading to your grandchildren. Sometimes I walk away from a children’s book more inspired than I’ve been in three...

I was walking my daughter into preschool last week, when a poignant moment happened. The kind where you think you possibly, without malice, somewhat break your child’s little heart. Not a big break, but a small crack. The cracks of real life. Have you ever had that...

Last spring I had the privilege of running in a different place. Not a new place, just an adorable town in our area that I’ve run countless times in my life. What made it special this time is that lately I don’t run too far from home. As in, I literally start almost...

Fitness is such a personal journey, and sometimes those journeys are slow and easy in unfolding. It doesn’t always have to be complicated and it doesn’t always have to fit in a box. My relationship with yoga? It’s NOT complicated.  It continues to naturally...

Books are extraordinary things, aren’t they? They’re an adventure across the globe, an intimate lunch with your friend, and a visit to the therapist, all wrapped up in one. They have extraordinary possibility, contained in an ordinary cover which can be held in the...

I am a habitual plant killer.  Ask my husband.   A BEAUTIFUL, GREEN plant, maybe even flowering, will arrive at our house.  I will look at it with love, hope, and possibility.   It’s beauty is a gift and having it in our home will...