Two years ago my best friend Rah and I traveled to SLC to visit her sister and lead a girls workshop. It resulted in amazing adventures and our part one commandments of the city, posted in the pic below. This time around we had completely new adventures and thus, completely new commandments. Details follow here… […]
Chill in the Heat- Songs of the Day with LVA
It’s time for a new playlist. I was jamming in Hawaii to a lot of Alex’s playlists. You can follow her here on Spotify if you want to get in on her awesome music. When I returned from my trip I needed to chill a bit. I had 12 days of doing whatever I wanted […]
Not A Saver
I’ve never been a saver of things. I’m mostly petrified by those reality hoarding shows. I mean, I watch in a crazy gawking kind of way. And then revel in their truth as I try to understand it. You can’t throw away 3 nail polishes you’ve never used? You have 150 balls of wool and […]
Begin Again: A Story for hard times
BEGIN AGAIN. The words echoed in my ears. I lived most of my childhood with an anxious tic. Every time I made a mistake I would shake my head and tell myself, “I’m starting my life over right now.” With a violent shake of my neck to the right I would try desperately to erase […]
Commandments of Hilo
I’ve been on writing retreat in Hawaii. Time for some new commandments. If you aren’t aware, I sometimes-when I feel like it- create new commandments for the cities I visit. My hope with this is I offer a remembering for myself of the place I visited-full transparency that’s what I care about most-and also offer […]
Bullet Points For a Better, Faster Way
Hey beauty, I stopped by a few weeks ago to share this playlist with a few thoughts on how I feel about fall. If you don’t want to click that link my answer is: Melancholy When I hit this inevitable season of cold/dark/dampness I tend to try really, really hard to pull myself out of […]
Fall into Coffee- Songs of the Day with LVA
I want this to be a happy post. And it’s not my real story. So this playlist isn’t always happy. It’s my fall playlist. Fall is harder for me than summer. I love summer. I love the sun. Fall feels more like a fall for me and you might feel it in this music. The […]
Throw Your Punch
It might sound funny to say sports isn’t my thing, since I started fighting in boxing/kickboxing in 1996. But it’s really not. It was more of a life-saving thing for me than a sport thing. I’ve had a lot of people ask me about my thoughts/predictions on the Khabib vs. McGregor fight happening tomorrow. I […]
Commandments of Portland
So my August #microbucketlist included taking a spontaneous trip. It led me to this new, inevitable, commandments of cities I visit. If you’d like a deeper dive into what the ‘commandments of cities’ I visit are you can check out this post. Let me start with my original vision of taking a spontaneous trip. Here’s […]
Some days…
There is a day, you die inside. For many reasons you die. There is a day, you live outside. For many reasons you live. One day you decide your insides can be your outsides. Then you walk tall and you live free. You take it on. Or you shrink small and you live chained. […]