What is this life if we don't wander to find ourselves?
Nov. 15 was the two-year anniversary of my dad's death. He was tragically killed in a house fire in Wichita. To be honest, it still hurts a lot to type those words. You never think it'll happen to your family — until it does. As a member of the media I've covered many fires —... Continue Reading →
I’m a Creature of Habit when it comes to many things. I know what I like and I stick to it, especially when it comes to restaurants and my walking route. And most of the time it pays off in the form of random, meaningful connections. When I’m walking I only have a couple of... Continue Reading →
Halloween is one of my favorite holidays and since I don't have children and didn't have any prior commitments this year, I celebrated the holiday my way. Since I've been on vacation, I had the luxury of sleeping in to my heart's content. My dogs helped me carve a pumpkin, which was a very stubborn... Continue Reading →
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 →
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 →
A couple of days ago I hit day 600 in my personal Facebook gratitude posts. SIX HUNDRED. Six hundred days of posting what I'm grateful for. Six hundred days. That's a lot of days and it blows me away that I've kept it up this long. Call it dedicated, compulsive, whatever, but I've never been sorry... Continue Reading →
The Wandering Pigeon 