MN Blog Conference Re-Cap

This year, by the generosity of my friends, I was able to attend the MN Bloggers Conference.  I’ve been writing on a blog for about 3 years and I haven’t even heard of this conference (insert embarrassed emoji). The problem is I haven’t networked much.  I was beyond excited to attend the conference just for […]

Tracks

I can’t remember the first time I put a penny on a set of train tracks, waited for a train to run it over and then went back to find it.  I don’t remember where we were or how old I was but I know my dad is the one that took me. Every time we go up […]

Unthink

I pride myself on thinking outside of the box.  I’ve actually won quite a few contests by thinking just a tad different then everyone else.  I like it and it’s fun!  A few weeks ago I went to Dallas for a work conference.  Going in I thought that it would be full of suits and […]

Goal begins with GO

“A goal without a plan is just a wish” someone said once.  Let’s turn those wishes into actions!  I challenge you to come up with 5 goals and use the summer season to complete them.  They do not have to be super challenging but they do have to be something that makes you want to […]

Boys and Body Issues

I used to date this guy with some pretty MAJOR body issues.  Like, I’ve slept with him a few times and haven’t ever seen him naked.  Not. Even. Once. He was the skater type.  Even on the hottest days he wore jeans, a hoodie skater shoes and a baseball cap.  SOMETIMES I’d see him in […]

Rocky

Some of my extended family is pretty eccentric.  The particularly odd ones are VERY odd.  It took me years to appreciate their uniqueness. When I was fourteen my parents went on their first vacation without us kids and out of the country.  They packed their bags and headed to Mexico for what felt like an eternity.  […]

Loves

I’ve been in love twice in my life. I married one and spent most of my late teens / early twenties dreaming about marrying the other. *               *                * This week, Yoga class was all about camel pose. The open-heart pose. […]

Operation Self-Love

If you don’t know this already, I am a Fierce Forward Ambassador.  Over at Ashley at Fierce Forward is doing some AMAZING things!  If you hurry up you can join Operation Self-Love.  It’s a 26 day challenge to loving yourself FIERCELY!  After all, you are the person you’ll spend the rest of your life with. […]

Neighbors

Two years ago $#!t when down in the neighborhood.  When I say $#!t went down, I mean it exploded.  It was kind of like a constipated infant that gets a little bit of apple juice to help things along; when the rumbling starts watch out because it goes up the back, in the hair, literally […]