My 2018 Reading List

How do you decide what you want to read next? Is it spontaneous? Or do you keep a running list? I think I am a blend of the two. I keep a list of books I am excited to read, but I also like to pick up whatever I am in the mood for. The list serves as a place to go back to for ideas and when I am in a brain fog with ideas. The past few years,… Read more »

Every year, I take a moment to reflect on my favorite 3 books from the prior year and to share them here. I love looking back on what I’ve read and thinking about new perspectives and ideas I’ve been exposed to through what I chose. Below is the list of what I read in 2017. There are several titles that were on my 2017 reading list, but I also went rogue for a quite of 2017. Although I have been… Read more »

After many years of declaring Crossfit wasn’t for me, I begrudgingly agreed to try it out for 3 months last May. Seven months later, I am still attending classes almost daily. If you think I’m going to tell you that Crossfit is going to help you lose 20 pounds, get 6-pack abs or allow you to leap tall building in single bound, you won’t find that here. You can trip over that type of information anywhere you look these days. I’m… Read more »

One thing I’ve learned in recent years is to find people I trust to help me with my (many) weaknesses. Skincare is one of those areas for me. I am at an age where my lack of care and interest has caught up with me though. Many years of not protecting my skin from the sun left me with sun spots and hyper pigmentation that just doesn’t look great. As I shared in THIS post last year, once I discovered… Read more »

Summer Project: Entry Refresh

Remember when I said I was going to challenge myself to update one room in our home every month? Murphy’s Law states as soon as you declare something on the internet, you must eat your words. You didn’t know that? Yeah, they changed Murphy’s Law recently. Well, better four months late than never, right? Today I want to share how we freshened up our small entry over the past few months. This past summer I decided to focus on freshening… Read more »