I am sitting at a Starbucks on 10:25 am on a Saturday morning, downing a soy vanilla latte (I was dairy free before it became hip and cool) and using their free wifi. I don’t know if that makes me a hipster or just pathetic. In all honesty,I’m waiting for my car to get new brakes and an oil change down the street. Getting ready … Continue reading RANT: Universe Stop Ninja Kicking Me in the Face
This email from one of the partners I work with made my day. I really enjoy working with this group. They work hard and just get it. They are so easy to work with and are accommodating for the simplest, hardest, and most insane needs/request/last minute crap moments. As my duties in my big girl job do include event planning, I try to make sure … Continue reading Gratitude
Sometimes the past comes back into your life, not to haunt but to inspire. This message to me from someone in my past did just that. Inspired me. Being a writer is a lonely job. You may have the cast of characters you talk to in your head and who accompany you on your journey, but the do not replace the live human interaction. Your … Continue reading Inspiration
There are days that test your patience. The days that make you want to take out the frustrations on others, yourself, or both! I had one of those. And as frustrated as I got, I realized that my frustration weren’t really mine. I did everything right. I did my job and I helped out and that the end result was putting out a forest fire … Continue reading Test On My Patience
2013 started on a low. Maybe the lowest I’ve ever been in a long while. I sat in the darkest depression I had ever been in since I was in my late teens/early twenties. I wasn’t use to the hibernating weather or the sad colors of winter in Detroit. In the months of January-March, I cried on a daily basis when I got home from … Continue reading Goodbye 2013
What is Project 333? From the Project 333 website: Project 333 is a minimalist fashion challenge that invites you to dress with 33 items or less for 3 months. And I just accepted the challenge. Me, the Queen of more hockey & band t-shirts, than one human needs, did what?!?! 33 items for 3 months. While reading up and prepping myself for the Project 333, … Continue reading This is what 33 Items In Your Closet Looks Like
It’s not that I’m Scrooge or The Grinch, I just don’t like the fact that society starts Christmas before Halloween even ends. As a child, Christmas started on Thanksgiving Day. After all the food was put away and the dishes were clean, the aunts and the uncles would drag out all the Christmas decorations and decorate my grandparents tree and we’d watch those silly family … Continue reading The Holidays
This post is for Heather. She tweeted on Monday she needed “…a something to make me feel better. #sadtweet” You can see our conversation-> But I wanted to do something more for her than a few tweets and though it wasn’t immediately, I hope this brightens her day now and this might be the something to make her feel better. It’s a little late Heather, … Continue reading For Heather
I can feel it in my bones. There’s a certain ache. It’s an ache of the sun slipping away into the darkness sooner and of Luna staying awake longer than she should. The ending of a season filled with blue skies and green grass and the beginning of a season filled with gray skies and snow-white embankments. It’s the oncoming storm. A storm that no … Continue reading The Oncoming Storm
Happiest of Birthdays to Ruth Taylor, who turns 94 years awesome this year. My grandmother has always been one of the women in my life that has shaped me into the woman I am now. She always spoke exactly what was on her mind, didn’t take any crap from anyone, stood up for herself, and lived her life the way she wanted with her husband … Continue reading Happy Birthday Ruth Taylor