What is this life if we don't wander to find ourselves?
Well folks, it's that time again where fingers fly, words splatter across the screen and hours are spent dreaming, creating and writing. It's almost National Novel Writing Month! Each year people all across the globe take a daunting challenge: write a 50,000-word novel in one month. I've done this twice before and next month I've... Continue Reading →
Saturday night mom and I were driving in downtown Wichita looking at the cityscape when we drove by something unexpected that I had no idea existed and it was a true thing of beauty. The ICT Pop-Up Urban Park, which is located at 121 E. Douglas, was formerly a hole in the ground Wichita called... Continue Reading →
This morning I was on my way to work and I was struck by a beauty so simple and so ordinary for our Kansas town. Our local grain elevator, Bunge, was surrounded by grain trucks waiting to drop off their load of precious grain. I kept driving for a second, but was just struck by... Continue Reading →
Today was Adventure Day -- a day to explore "ghost towns" right in my own backyard. In one day we managed to visit several towns: Cedar Point, Clements, Elmdale, Diamond Creek and Dunlap. It was a glorious fall day today. The leaves are starting to turn and the cool fall air coupled with abundant sunshine made... Continue Reading →
I recently discovered the wonderful world of Netflix. I wrote about this in a previous post "Smart TV Drama." The great thing about not having it all these years is I get to binge on multiple seasons at a time on my favorite shows. And I'm discovering that watching an hour a more — per day... Continue Reading →
I figured since I sent a Snapchat to a few friends with a picture of holes I put in a wall, I should stop to explain myself. Today I smashed a wall. But I wasn't the only one. And it was for a very good cause. I had the honor of smashing a wall today.... Continue Reading →
On Labor Day weekend I had a plan: a 3-day weekend with my new smart TV. But, as it frequently happens, things didn't go as planned. Here is the way I imagined it happening: move old TV out. Have someone come and haul it off the next day. Install new TV — it's a smart... Continue Reading →
Last night I set an actual alarm (one that wasn't on my phone) for the first time in nearly seven weeks. The time it read was 4:58 a.m. before I changed it. It made me a bit sad — because that 4:58 a.m. was a life-changing moment/day/time for me. On the morning of July 14... Continue Reading →
I was having a conversation with someone this week about slowing down and noticing the world around us...she'll know who she is if she reads this. As I'm listening to her talk and tell her story she used as an example, I realized something about myself — how often I don't slow down and enjoy... Continue Reading →
This weekend I had the opportunity to live a dream — an overnight paranormal investigation of a decommissioned prison. I went with a group to Missouri State Penitentiary, in Jefferson City, Mo., which was originally opened in 1836 and decommissioned in 2004. It was once the largest prison in the United States and held 5,200... Continue Reading →
The Wandering Pigeon 