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Some new cut paper illustrations. I still feel like I am trying to figure out my style… I often read the articles on branding yourself and creating a signature style. Maybe I need to quit reading...
View Articleagainst the grain
Very often the way I’m wired, the decisions I/We (as a family) make feel like they go against the grain. Most of the time I feel like enough, and don’t get caught up in comparisons with the way other...
View Articlefractured
How is your brain feeling in the 21st century? 4 out of 4…starting at minute 6 or so in this video you’ll see why I ask that question. I notice it in people as a general sense of anxiety that is...
View Articlefresh hell
Happy New Year! I do wish everyone a Happy New Year. But I myself feel like I’m staring into the abyss. Where I normally feel a sense of hope and possibilities for the year ahead, or even a desire...
View Articlea rant.
I have been substitute teaching this school year. And last week I decided enough is enough! I substituted in a 5th grade classroom last week and very nearly walked off the job. In my time filling in I...
View Articleage of entitlement
These cows have the life don’t they? That is until, well, you know, the end… But let us not speak of that. Instead let us speak of this age of entitlement. Let us speak of how it permeates our...
View Articlejust call me grandma
It has been an interesting, dramatic, life-changing year all the way around. Through a series of unfortunate events I am digging my new role as grandma! Yep, that’s right we are grandparents. So today...
View Article8. NO SHAVE NOVEMBER
1. and now a beard, 2. Beard, 3. Bearded up!, 4.Bearded Elvis, 5. Bearded Niki, 6. Beard Celebrities, 7. Bearded, 8. beard full of love, 9.Honeybee beard Consider this a TMI gratitude post, because I’m...
View Article24. Etiquette
(another sort of random photo – although the dressy attire (bow ties make any event formal) worn by Nate years ago in a school play is loosely related to etiquette) I have to back track since day 24....
View Articleobsessed
Wow, I am now consumed with this Tiny House thing! It’s like when I was a kid engrossed in a great book, and my mom would ask me to do some chores before she left for work, and then I would not put my...
View ArticleStop shoulding on yourself
Have you ever heard that phrase before? The phrase about shoulding on ourselves or others? I should be cooking dinner instead of wasting time photographing my Valentine’s carnations… I should be more...
View Articlewilly nilly
Complete willy nillyiness. I am under mad preparations to leave my family for the weekend so just a quick post with a few things making me smile. 1. First off my new, gosh dang cowboy boots!! Mr....
View Articleyou matter, and why everything is making me cry…
you know, well, ahem, *eyes averted, blushing color rising to my cheeks, trying to shrink within my skin*…. i am one of those people who just struggles. a lot. struggles with wondering what the...
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