As I type from my couch home sick, where I’ve slept legitimately 24 of the last 48 hours, I am CLEARLY seeking/receiving/manifesting/some other something the words of the universe to STOP DOING SOMETHING. Not just slow down, but eliminate some things that aren’t serving me: The Most Unrealistic Expectation of Them All Need to hear…
She’s loud, she’s overprotective, she’s grouchy, she’s an old lady, she gets sand in my bed and refuses to leave the beach sometimes, she scares old ladies walking weird and kids skateboarding and friends who come over and strangers who manage to make their way into my house and I don’t mind it when she…
Denali and I walk on the beach every morning. Sometimes (okay, fine, a lot of times), I’m late so we only get a 15- or 20-minute walk, but sometimes we get these fabulous leisurely walks, where I sip a latte and look around for the dog catcher before slyly letting her run free along the…
Changes are afoot. Doing with love. So I will be at peace. Confident. Grateful for: time, space, friends, books, protein cookies, nali, family, latte link 2, vb, beach, bonfires, crossfitters, yoga, ra yoga. Save Save
I love life by the beach. And it looks like I’m gonna be here a little while longer, at a job I love and in a house I love! Last weekend, I was reminded of the joys of beach living with the perfect Sunday: Nali playing at dog beach before I hopped on a bike and cruised…
I would like to beg you, dear Sir, as well as I can, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to…
Back to my This is Life in … roots, a post on This is Life in a Motel. As I mentioned in Apartment Search, I am still looking for the perfect apartment. In my quest to not settle for anything less, perhaps paradoxically I moved into a motel (a motel, it should be noted, that is…
Over on DailyHap.com: 11 Inspiring Celebrity Quotes on Happiness. The Hap? Write your own quote on happiness. Since I am a faux celeb, here goes: Happiness Is. Like the Year of Is, happiness is. Happiness is so many things: a snuggle from a pup, a kiss from a loved one, a smile from a stranger, a…
And here’s me, working on being all vulnerable* (and shit): dailyhap.com/articles/the-ninja *here, #19.
Living in sunny SoCal has really hampered my ability to kill my own Christmas tree this year. I’m super excited about what I did find though: Living Christmas Tree, a tree rental company! They drop ‘er off and pick ‘er back up, all you gotta do is keep ‘er alive (um, easier said than done,…