Some days you just can’t ride the pony. No matter how many goals, road-maps, or shots of sunshine you slide down your throat, you are just not getting on. Not today. But….you should right? So…you make yourself move forward, you push through it, you put on your riding gear and you tell yourself you CAN, YOU WILL… and you…are…hating…every…stinking…rotten…minute…and dang…you… Read More
Blowing out Candles
Another birthday week has passed us by in our birthday intense family. No worries, there will be more. Between my large family and my Irish husband’s clan, there is never a shortage of birthday cake and parties to go around. Never a lack of reasons to gather the troops, fire up the grills or ovens, let the music play and the laughter… Read More
Haven House or Hazard House?
“Like it or not, the personalities of our homes are accurate barometers that reflect, through our surroundings, where we have been, what’s going on in our lives, and who we are–today, this moment–though not necessarily where we are heading. Sarah Ban Breathnach In my kitchen, hanging on a twine, is a chalkboard. It faces the entrance so that anyone who… Read More