Gratitude and Kindness

Do find a way to put your special mark on the world, by way of a kind word or gesture.

Finding Satisfaction from Birds

Children, like birds, will delight you or frustrate you and that is entirely dependent upon YOU, not them.

Using the Good Things Jar

I refuse to live in fear because for me that is an incorrect response

A Loss Hard to Express

Tara and I had a terrible loss this year.

Our first year

The first year only makes me eager to see what the next years are going to be like.

Graduation and other updates

I am so late in telling you, but Tara graduated from college!!! Yes, in June my kiddo received their Bachelor of Science in Geology. I am very very proud of my baby for sticking with it and doing all the work to make it happen in the end. It took six years and there is […]

Smoky Old Snowy

See that? No, you don’t, because of the smoke.

First hike of 2021

I am hugely grateful to be 51 and happily climbing mountains.

Indomitability

Writing to you guys is therapeutic.

Good Things

In the past I’ve reported the contents of my Good Things Jar. The first time I wrote about it was January 2015. Any time there is something good, it gets written onto a scrap of paper and tossed into the jar. Back then, Tara was living with me and we both contributed. We had intended […]