Horses, Dogs, and Mindfulness

Do you ever have those moments when you’re so in your head you forget what you’re doing? While I was out feeding this morning, I started out to the horses with the food for the cats. I was so in my head I almost reached the fence. The horses were quietly munching...

Come Out From Under Your Cloak

Do you ever feel invisible? Do you want to have Harry Potter’s cloak of invisibility? I read a post this week where a woman said that when she was a child her parents didn’t acknowledge her so she would do things to get their attention. Which means she would get their...

My Adventure of Self Discovery

​To say moving my mom out of her house of 50 years has been an adventure might be an understatement. I’m learning a lot about why I am who I am. While going through my room I found a Keirsey Temperament Sorter that a counselor friend of my parents sent me when I was...

Releasing My Emotional Baggage Back to the Universe

Tests – the last few months have been full of them. My mom signed a contract on her house and will close in a little over a week. Along with that May was a month full of travel, some unexpected, and I no more than returned from Hawaii and I was in the final stages of...

Overwhelm and Perfectionism – Don’t Let Them Get You Down

It finally feels like summer. I’m back from my island vacation, feeling renewed, to a whirlwind of activity. I’m planning a celebration of life for my dad who died last year during the pandemic and my mother is moving out of the house that she’s lived in for 50 years....

Purging in the Pacific Ocean

It’s a little after three in the morning and the rooster just started crowing. There is a cacophony of sounds here. As it gets dark the coqui frogs start to serenade us. Then early in the morning, the rooster starts up and a little later he is joined by more birds...