Secretly, I think you know who you are. I think secretly you know EXACTLY who I am talking about, and YES, you think this song is about you … and I am here to say – I know you know -and you know that I know you know that I know… I watch you walk […]
About 6 months after my mom passed away I had a cancer scare. Mike and I went to all the appointments and were waiting on results. I began to reminisce about all the memories that my mom made with us kids, and I grieved the fact, or what I thought was fact at the time, […]
He said it to me as he looked me lovingly, purely in the eyes… I took a breath and exhaled the disbelief and inhaled the pure love it was said in. Snapshot that moment, and it hit me – I could rest, I could BE, I could just … And that, whatever it was – […]
Mike and I recently sat and had filthy martinis in Golden, BC (OK, I did – he had a beer). Overlooking the river, we toasted our 18 years together, 12 years married, and I can’t help but think back. Mike doesn’t like to … he tries to get as far away from that time as […]
All the lights faded, trophies had been given out, and I sat there … the crescendo of all my thoughts and emotions crashing down on me … I had just completed what felt like the longest prep season ever for a competition that I didn’t even want to be in … and … I sat […]
Submit to your husband! *Warning: contains content that may offend* Over lunch the other day my girlfriends and I were talking about some of our childhood programming – what defines us as good wives, mothers, friends and, ultimately, WOMEN. This group of ladies has been such an inspiration that I am sorting my thoughts out […]
Mom, today is your birthday… I am remembering your smile, the way you hysterically laughed at your own jokes, the way your lips pursed when you were upset, and the way only your bottom teeth were visible when you talked when you were really mad. Or your face that time when you danced with the […]
I haven’t written… As I sit and go through the reasons, they are all excuses, because I have written, I have just not posted … I have composed multiple writings. … Here is the thing: after the last entry there were some private messages exchanged from a number of people and some VERY negative self […]
It’s been a while coming, but here are some before and after photos – At My Largest I was consuming 500- 900 Calories a day and I was approximately 188+ LBS I have a super messy story that is layered not only with intertwining stories but also perceptions of reality that are open to interpretation. […]
The Gifts My mom passed away in 2007; it was not quick and it was not painless. She left me a legacy of love and strength. She left an example of determination and stubbornness with a healthy side of crazy. Over the years since she has been gone, I have come to love, understand and […]
