If you or a loved one are healing from cancer or any other health challenges you need to know about some of the easiest things you can do from your own home to support your body’s ability to detox and heal. Spend time in a Sauna Our bodies are exposed to all sorts of harmful…

Our cookie-cutter home in suburbia was less than ten years old when we bought it. At just under 3000 square feet it had ample room for our young family of five. We decided to sell it last year at the beginning of the pandemic and traded it for a mere…

I nearly died at the thought of getting kicked out of graduate school. Ten years ago my husband and I were a young married couple without kids, both working and going to school. The little old house we rented was over a hundred years old, sat solitary on a huge…

I yelled at one of my angels today. I was trying to help her practice her spelling. She was having an exceptionally hard time focusing. I was determined to stay patient and positive. I didn’t push. I backed off and encouraged her to do it her own way and I…

Last week a migraine swallowed me. In the midst of it and from the bathtub I wrote: Hello Old Teacher, Pain, exquisite pain, an old teacher from my past knocked on my door today. For a time I resisted his presence, trying in every possible way to shield my eyes…

Have you ever considered getting rid of, or selling everything for a simple life full of adventure and outdoors? Us too. We’ve done it twice actually. Our first time, a few years ago, we sold everything to live in a new country each month with our three little kids, ages…

I haven’t written a blog post in a long time, but tonight as I laid awake the words to what I would write kept playing across my mind as if they were being typed across the page of my mind. The repeating theme: I choose love. The last month has…

I watched a tree be ripped apart today. I didn’t want to watch, but I couldn’t keep myself from watching. My heart ached and seemed to groan within me as that little tree was torn limb by limb. Each blow sent piercing stabs down my own spine. And the grief…

When we moved back into our home last fall, a few months after I had been diagnosed with breast cancer on the heels of our 7 months of full-time international travel, and after unexpectedly living with my gracious parents for 4 months, Colby always said he didn’t think we’d live…