Provoked to Climb

Guilt is the best way to provoke me to face fears heights, climbing, weakness   I've been guilted in to trying indoor rock climbing again. I still have a few days before I have to go, but I can already feel the anxiety building up inside me. Maybe this time I can get out of my …

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Shock

  keep those fingers crossed all of the stars have aligned it's a shock to see

Take Me Back

Do you ever have those days when you want nothing more than for your only responsibility to be passing the next exam? To simply sit down and study, read with abandon, and fill your brain with information that will be of little to no use to you in your adult life with out the worry of …

A Slow Beginning

As much as I am grateful for the holidays and having the opportunity to spend quality time with family that I am not able to see often, I am so thankful that the holidays are over with. I thrive on having a routine and all semblance of such routines vanish for weeks during the whirlwind …

North to my Compass

I don't know what I did to deserve you I'm not going to pretend that I'm easy to live with I'm messy I'm loud I'm often mean I expect the impossible But when I lose my way in this mess of a world You are the north to my compass

Acceptance.

For today's post I just have a simple question:   Pre-patined copper is undoubtedly a trend this year - so why is it that we still cannot accept people that come into our lives with a patina of their own; should the patina not make them even more beautiful as it does to copper?

Wrong Turn

This was the scariest moment of my life. Not because my mother, in an exhausted attempt to find us somewhere to sleep for the night, turned the wrong way down a one-way expressway ramp, but because it made me realize that her illness was going to have a larger impact on the rest of our …

An Ode to Knitting

You make me happy when skies are grey Or blue Or wet Or cold You keep me warm Even when I don't want to be But that won't stop me I will buy all the yarn To keep my hands busy For the rest of time I will knit you a gift And you a …

The Dentist

It was time for my bi-annual dentist appointment. Just a routine cleaning. Nothing out of the ordinary. When I called to make the appointment they had an opening bright and early at 8 am. Now, I am usually only barely conscious at that point in the morning, but I went ahead and said I'd take …

The More You Know

It's true - you do learn something everyday. Some days you may learn a new skill, others you might learn a new fact. And sometimes you may learn that your mother-in-law secretly thinks that you and your sister-in-law are alcoholics. Did you know that bottles of wine are intended to have five-six glasses in them? …