postcard from katy {from suzanne’s swap}

dear frida,
someone recently told me that you are my guardian art angel, since you literally have been showing up on my doorstep and in my life over and over these days… how blessed am i? so i am writing you this letter in hopes that you might help me [...]

my son was asked to bring something into school today from nature to add to a “poetry museum” that the kids are creating in class… a display of beautiful natural objects that will inspire them to wax poetic! i love this idea, and i love imagining all the lovely little treasures that made their way [...]

* i signed my first autograph :) made me feel like a rock star even if it was for a sweet friend!
* the baby is almost signing (he’s done it a few times!) and knows “more” and “eat” and “all done”. what else do you need? big brother signed his first word around this age [...]

i have finally written and shared my wishmamas story over in the wishstudio. it has taken me a long time (a lot longer than i expected) to be able to open up and share this, as it is a very tender place for me to go. i think i began hosting the series last spring [...]

i believe that certain things, important things, keep showing up in your life until you get them right. these are the things that materialize as struggle and resistance, but at the same time are so familiar like an old and nagging ache. they are familiar because you’ve had a go at them many times before, [...]

yummy spring salad:
spring mix and baby spinach1/2 apple, sliced thinblue cheese crumblescashewsorzoyour favorite dressing

it’s been a fairly easy transition to a meat free lifestyle. much easier than i thought it would be. to eat with intention has been an interesting shift. it feels different than to diet. less constrained and certainly more empowering. it has [...]

hooray for spring-like days! the shifting, clear and yellow light, the opening of doors and windows, lots of chattering birds in the morning, gentle light in the evening, tiny buds on the trees filled with promises, afternoons at the park and a first time on the swing, hours spent turning over rocks in search of [...]

you can not have…~fear without passion~darkness without light~sorrow without knowing joy~disappointment without fulfillment~need without desire~wanting without hope~pain without growth~challenges without vision~loss without having~death without life~life without love

it’s been raining nonstop here since friday. there are pots and buckets strategically place throughout my house to catch all the leaks that have sprung up. my son was completely soaked walking to the bus this morning so i ended up (drying his coat, clothes, and tears) and driving him to school. there was a [...]

i’ve been working like crazy to get ready for the launch of the new wishstudio website… i am so excited to become my own dot com, but it’s been taking a huge amount of work and i am so grateful to have christine and brianna heading up this project for me. there have been photo [...]

i’m looking to find the balance between all of these things… working and creating, parenting and playing, exercise and rest, passion and obsession, togetherness and alone time, desires and needs, screen time and real time, feeding and indulging, big brother and little brother, self care and family care, present and future, becoming and being, listening [...]

lots of yummy reads stacked by the bed these days… (in part thanks to the many fabulous authors in my orbit :) i love savoring the goodness in little bits, reading a little here and a little there. by 8pm i’m usually so exhausted, that’s about all i can muster. i haven’t been reading all [...]

our neighbor’s house surrounded by the sea

i was really inspired by this post by maegan, so i wanted to share my own “because things aren’t always wonderful here but at the same time…they are.” i couldn’t have said it better myself and i love the notion of always finding that silver lining.
reality: there has [...]

big brother is sucessfully halfway through the first grade. he is a wiz at math and is going on his very first field trip to a maple sugar farm later this week. his newest fascination is with percy jackson and greek mythology and sword fighting. his two best friends at school are both girls, one [...]