There are days when I think the bears have figured out life better than we have. Recently, a black bear wandered into an Alaska shopping mall. Yes.A shopping mall. It apparently walked through the automatic doors, stole a peach, pooped on the floor, and left. And honestly? Respect. […]
There’s an old Chinese folktale about a man whose horse runs away. His neighbors come over to commiserate. Terrible luck. The man says, essentially, “Maybe.” Then the horse comes back with several wild horses. Amazing luck! The man says, “Maybe.” Then his son tries to ride one of […]
I was thinking today about how strange it is that we spend approximately 90% of our lives looking for things we personally put somewhere. Keys. Glasses. Phone. The phone we are currently holding while looking for the phone. And then there are the things we lose emotionally. Our […]
Fourteen years ago, I started a blog with absolutely no plan. No content calendar.No brand strategy.No “voice and tone” guide approved by a committee of people who say things like “circle back.” Just vibes. And yet, here we are. Fourteen years later. Still typing. Still observing. Still mildly […]
At night, I flick on my little red lamp. Not because I’m running a secret photography darkroom. Not because I’m signaling passing ships. And no, it’s not because I’ve suddenly decided to become the neighborhood’s “woman of intrigue.” It’s because that red glow does something to me. It […]
There’s something oddly humbling about thunder. You can be mid-sentence, mid-bite of your overpriced salad, or mid-scroll of your phone, and then BOOM! Mother Nature drops the mic. It’s the kind of sound that doesn’t ask for your attention, it demands it. Lately, though, thunder hasn’t just been […]
This morning, I locked eyes with my dog mid-coffee sip, and I swear he tilted his head and judged me. Not in a cute “aw you’re my human” way. No. It was more of a “hmm…interesting choices you’re making for yourself lately” kind of tilt. And I’ll be […]
Listen, I’m sprawled in my bathtub, pruning like a philosophical raisin, and the world’s out there doing its best impression of a five-alarm dumpster fire. Bubbles are popping, my lavender bath bomb is fizzing out like my last shred of motivation, and my brain’s serving up a word […]
Monday mornings tend to have us daydreaming, right? Today, I found myself fixated on black-billed magpies. Yes, magpies! These little birds are seriously underrated. Not only are they drop-dead gorgeous with their sleek black-and-white tuxedo look, but they’re social geniuses. They can recognize themselves in the mirror (let […]
Imagine, if you will, a perfectly ordinary Tuesday disrupted by the most extraordinary of events: your beloved dog, who until now has communicated solely through tail wags, barks, and the occasional interpretive sneeze, suddenly utters a single, cryptic phrase: *“I know the truth.”* And then—silence. Not another bark, […]
