As I shared last week, I have decided that I need to be a tourist in my own town  and this week, A.D., Ashley and I went to the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY.  I had a blast and learned more about...

While listening to The Nerdist podcast the other day, they promoted a new podcast, The Message.  The first time I heard the promo, I thought it sounded cool.  I then promptly forgot to write it down and forgot...

No one lives in pure bliss. I believe that we all have the desire for something more, something fulfilling, something that doesn’t feel like work. When we aren’t honoring that desire, we often feel...

The discussion this week from Love Art, Happy Life is on being an artist and having confidence in yourself as an artist.  I feel like this is applicable to much more than art though, but since this has turned...

Way back in Week 17 of Journal 52, there was a prompt called Rise or Fall that asked the journaler to consider ‘rising up, rising above or rising again’ and there was a bonus for creation of a...

“Seriously, are you making more pickles!?!”  That was the question asked this morning when A.D. saw the crock on the kitchen counter and the mason jars in a neat line. “I am not making more...

We rarely stay directly in the city we are visiting and our trip to Chicago is no different.  You can usually save a couple hundred and get reasonable accommodations by staying in a nearby town.  We picked a...

Good Morning! Every day is a little brighter with Butter Coffee!  At this point, you might be wondering what I’m on about…well, I drink butter in my coffee, for my health.  I know, bizarre string...