The Year That Ended the Decade

  A decade. 10 years. Seems like a daunting amount of time. But really.  It’s not. 10 years can soar by in a heartbeat. Yet so much can happen in that heartbeat. Life happens in that heartbeat. So much life. …………………….. In this decade….time moved so swiftly. It tiptoed and stomped. It swept past me,...

Go Big or Go Home

I stand at the bottom of the three stairs leading into my 1914 house . Just three. And I start panicking. I attempt to lift my good leg and think again. And then I do it again and again. Until I’m sweating. And shaking. And tears are forming. I can’t. And I finally hand my...

A 30 Foot Adventure

  First of all… The one in the middle there. She’s amazing. Seriously. She’s always one of the first people to show up on my door step with a cup of coffee and a heart ready to hear (at least the last couple years) a horror story of what I’ve done to myself this time....

The Triad

This is one of things I hadn’t intended to write about.  (But maybe it will be cathartic.) But my job, being the job it is…. this is probably necessary. I have written the sentence to my beautiful, most favorite people in the world over 20 times in the last few weeks “soooo, I have some...

The First

About 15 years ago, I took a photography course at the local community college. At the time I had a full time job, no kids, and digital photography was just barely getting started. I didn’t own a cell phone. (I hated the idea of having a phone with me at all times)  And I had...