Last weekend the Adventure Club visited Golden Gardens Park in Seattle for some good old Pacific Northwest winter beach walking, and I took a few iPhone shots to share. We love going to this Ballard neighborhood park, no matter what time of year it is. We’ve...
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Happy New Year, friends! I don’t know about you, but I am excited about what’s to come this year. I love cracking open a brand new journal and thinking about how I want to feel in 2015 and what things I want to focus on that will bring the most meaning...
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Merry Christmas! I hope you have a wonderful day with family and friends. We’ll be celebrating Christmas Eve with friends at Osteria Rigoletto and eating lots of homemade cookies on Christmas Day. I’ll be back soon with a few 2014 in review posts before we...
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Yesterday Nathaniel invited me into his room to play with him. “Let’s play bad guy and good guy, Mommy! No, wait, you be Wonder Woman and I’ll be the Human Torch, no wait…” At some point I threw in, “Hey, do you want to play a game...
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Last week I promised more details on The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing by Marie Kondo. I wrote an article about the book for Seattle Refined, so be sure to check it out if you’d like to know more. I also...
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The theme of the third issue of Bunch Magazine is one of my favorites: time. It includes an article by Billy Tangredi where he says, “You will reminisce about this time just as you do your twenties, your teenage years and your childhood, and yet you are...
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There are certain interests or paths that recur in my life. Right now I’m focused on simplicity, minimalism, meditation, and living with intention. More about those things and a little resource list at the end of this post! I remember the first time I read...
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Three years ago I was a contributor to a motherhood blog called Get Born. In the first post that I wrote for the site I explored my darkest fear – losing my son. I won’t go too much into the backstory that fuels this fear (you can see the photo above and read...
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Earlier this month I shared some thoughts with my newsletter subscribers about taking technology breaks. While I was traveling, I kept thinking about how many people choose to take social media breaks over the summer. Yes, I probably spend too much time on my iPhone...
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