Hello, I am now Lyssa Myska Zotlen. I wrote about the name change on LinkedIn, but I just can’t express enough gratitude for my Handsome Helpful Humanitarian Warrior Husband, who is on this ride with me. I am so grateful and impressed by his willingness to change our names to a family name. It’s weird.…
Cultivating gratitude does indeed beget more gratitude. But I also recognize that I am so, so lucky to have so much goodness in my life. Sometimes I take this list too seriously, and put it off when I could just get to the, er, (bullet) point.
Saturday morning was amazing. I feel so loved and supported heading into the next chapter of my life … I could not be more grateful to the absolutely awesome hosts of the party and the incredible women who showed up from near and far to celebrate and shower me with love. Baby Zotlen already has…
I get to see my best girls and favorite fam this weekend and I am so excited! We booked a last minute trip to Playa del Carmen for Memorial Day weekend and I am so excited! I gamed out some points so it’s mostly free except an expensive return flight home putting us in San…
A Gratitude List This is fun! There are things called WonderBlocks now in WordPress, which are fun to play with. I am grateful I am curious and continue to learn. I use ChatGPT for scrounging up new work. I use other AI tools for creation (yes I love Canva). I need to do more. I…
Immediate asterisk: it should be noted that I absolutely HATED the book Eat, Pray, Love, but I am not above a cultural reference. The majority of people using it probably haven’t read the navel-gazing, narcissistic book anyway. Throw it out the window 😉 — The relaxing solo road trip to retrieve the Highlander, who has…
I’m grateful for a busy week, despite the perception of me as a current lady of leisure … … who is doing the family’s taxes, preparing for a remote car purchase out of state with registration and insurance in another state, planning a bunch of other family stuff, doing a budget—the work really never ends,…
We are throwing an engagement party I am VERY EXCITED ABOUT this weekend. It’s going to be fancy and I am excited about every bit of it, not the least of which is celebrating some of our best friends’ engagement. I get to do last minute errands tonight, and set up the house, all of…
A gratitude list about the amazing things I love about my husband would be just *too* much for this blog, so I will tell you this: I am grateful that it is SO fun being married. I am grateful that we continue to dream of big lives with so many paths we might travel down.…
Incredibly, our one-year wedding anniversary is coming up this Sunday. Back then, I had big plans to post all my vendors and learnings and wedding-y things on this blog, but I … didn’t. I rode horses through Guatemala instead, I guess. So without shame here are all the amazing vendors I really wanted to recognize…