Travel blog, original art, and memoir.
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 [...]
(Recycled Glass Mosaic) Intense coffee shop chats occurred this week. I would steal away a few hours in the morning while the kids, entering the teen sleeping habit years, would sleep in until eleven or noon. I had a mission to intensely work on publishing blog posts and my artwork online. Yesterday, I spent all of the hours [...]
(“Nita”, Kevin’s baby) A dusty, red earth path leads to a large gray rock. “Are you ready?” asks Kevin, our fabulous new friend who volunteered to introduce us to the excitement of jeeping. “Ready?” we ask, wondering what we were ready for as the road had clearly come to a dead end. “Here we go!” [...]
Chicken bone broth simmering in the crock pot, the clean laundry waiting to be stuffed away by the kids, a clean smelling closet of a bathroom, vacuumed carpet and groceries for three days..I love mornings like this! They come around once a week month and provide me with a sense of freedom from chores so [...]
I woke up to snow coating the picnic table and the RV steps this morning in Moab, Utah. In Utah! When I first arrived here it was 75 degrees, I was ready to peel off my snow boots after coming off of the mountain in Breckenridge. We went from winter coats, hats, boots and stepped [...]
A week of drastic change, from the snowy mountains of Breckenridge, Colorado to the desert and rocks of Moab, Utah. I find it amazing how I seem to appreciate the places I leave so much more when I reflect back on them. The time in Breckenridge seems like a flicker, what an amazing experience to [...]
Birthdays, once a year the date comes around mixed with emotions of excitement and indifference. I have expectations and yet I do not want to have any expectations. It surprises me to find that I have many of the same emotions with the birthdays of my children with some added on sadness as I slowly [...]
(Thank you Brent Nims from Nims Media for the photo) The muscle connecting my head bone to my right shoulder bone throbs this morning, reminding me of my adventurous day on the mountain yesterday. The sun was shining, the ground newly covered in white, like the powdered sugar sifted over pastries. I was one of [...]
