Category: <span>Thoughts and Musings</span>

My Hawaiian Airlines experience was exactly what one would expect from a plane tasked with whisking vacationers to a tropical destination. I stepped from that Aloha shuttle into a Hawaii…

Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

Once upon a time I kicked the bad habit of teeth grinding.  But now the clench is back.  And with it comes the threat of receding gum lines, ear aches,…

Intentional Living Thoughts Thoughts and Musings

My eight-year-old daughter C asks the most annoying question: “Wait, what?” She asks it in that way that only a frustrated eight-year-old, youngest of the family, can as she navigates…

Intentional Living Thoughts and Musings

“Rest” feels like poison ivy to me. At the conclusion of one day, I’m already asking, “What’s next?”  I’m hardwired to plan, execute, and pivot with speed and efficiency. Until…

Intentional Living Thoughts and Musings

My children are learning about straight lines.  About the concentration that goes into a straight line. Not the continuous path laid by a pencil’s sacrifice, but the intermittent punches of…

Intentional Living Memories Thoughts and Musings Wanderings and Travel

When the first note–the wrong note–soared out of her violin, I stopped breathing.  She stood in front of the audience of strangers, of other children fingering violins, guitars, and piano music, and…

Intentional Living Memories Motherhood Parenting Thoughts and Musings