Travel blog, original art, and memoir.
(Autism Awareness Puzzle Piece Ribbon by Jason Bullett. Every diagnosis is a mystery and unique.) The Montessori School called me in for a meeting to discuss how Ethan was doing in his Kindergarten class. They were puzzled by his behaviors; always needing to be queued to move on to his next rug activity, sitting cross-legged [...]
Watch out for those windy gusts of “I’m Not Good Enoughs” -taken on the way to western Colorado from Utah I stayed up late last night watching the new release of Les Miserables (a tongue twister like cinnamonamon). It was nice just to chill in the back room with Jon and celebrate with a gluten-free [...]
Every once in awhile I will drag out my easel that is stored behind the passenger seat in the RV and set it out to paint en plein air. At Antelope Island State Park, it was the perfect set up; cement pad, grill table for paint supplies, and a spectacular view. I was surrounded by [...]
Elizabeth and I squeeze into a two person spot among the Memorial Day audience who must have gathered an hour before the morning taping of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. We are here to experience 360 voluntary choir members who spend their time in rehearsals and performances while traveling around the country. The Orchestra at Temple [...]
“Your happiness grows in direct proportion to your acceptance and in inverse proportion to your expectations,” Michael J Fox. After I read that quote, I began to ingest it this week and have some bold awareness on how much of my thoughts are more about expectations than acceptance. I think acceptance is so much more [...]
I have spent many moments trying hard to soak in this picture because I know it will be gone from my daily life in the near future. I look at them and remember the preschool years that seemed to last forever when you are a mom living the day-in-day-out physical exhaustion and never ending call [...]
The birds intertwine in their morning melodies, trills and clucks awakening with the sun. Antelope Island State Park becomes alive with their color; white California Gulls in their largest breeding grounds swoop in on the shoreline, Chuckars dodge between shrubs, Stilts eat Brine Shrimp along the Great Salt Lake as large billed Pelicans form [...]
I punched in the code to the laundry room and opened the door, lugging my metal framed, black rectangular IKEA laundry basket. Four washer lids shut and in full motion, two lids up and waiting for my stinky pile. I took a breath of moist, perfumed air and gagged. The laundry in those four washers [...]
