2024 Check In- How are those goals doing?!

***I’m ALMOST back from my July break, and as I came on here to start brainstorming about what I might write about in August… I realized I never published this post I meant to put up the end of June. I have not looked back or edited it since I wrote it mid-June so please read accordingly and I’ll have new content soon!****

I wrote a bit about my goals update when we were 1/4 of the way through the year… and while we have a few weeks to go until we reach the halfway point of 2024, this seemed like a good week to revisit the goals I want to keep moving forward with and how other goals may need to pivot or be approached in a new way. Continue reading

The Highs and Lows of a very Active Imagination…

Imagination- it is often underestimated. If you don’t believe me, I can walk you through many many “jokes” about my college degrees in theatre from people who think my skill sets learned there are useless. Imagination is powerful- but like any other tool it can be powerful in a creative or destructive way. Continue reading

Friendship Isn’t Linear

I’ve been thinking a lot about friendship recently. OK, that’s actually not a very new train of thought for me and I’ve been thinking about the importance of friendship for as long as I can remember, which is maybe why I chose to write an open letter to my Child(red)’s future friends instead of to a supposed spouse… but after this summer where I got to attend the weddings of two friends I’ve had for almost two decades, I’ve been specifically musing on the trajectories of friendship, and how they look a little different than my younger self would have guessed. Continue reading