I grew up with weekends at the lake, my fishing pole sitting idle while I scrambled through the tall grass looking for horned toads and fleeing from crickets. Summer vacations were on the road, in the RV, bunking with my sisters and playing cards until it was time for us to tumble out and play…
Category: Photo Mojo
Get Out Series: Inspired by Walter Mitty and Marina Keegan
On a scale of 1 to 10, how adventurous is your life? How many new places and new experiences have you had recently? I’m shifting my Get Real series to Get Out for the summer, which goes with my own shift from more introspection to extroversion as spring turned to summer and I realized I…
Get Real: Inside Out on Aging + Beauty
After two months of researching, talking to friends and family in person and online, and thinking about getting real about aging and beauty, I’ve come up with a bottom line. You need to love yourself enough to be yourself and take care of your body (and mind.) If you’re living a life of purpose, you’ll…
2013 Year in Review / Lessons
I always get sentimental this time of year – not only because we’re packing up the suitcase on a calendar year, but because it’s a reminder how truly fast time flies. They weren’t joking about that. I thought it might slow down the older I get. Nope. If anything, it seems someone has their foot…
3 things writers can learn from dancers
This weekend finds me in St. Louis wearing my dance mom hat, though not literally. (I do see an awful lotof dance mom and dad shirts, but I don’t own one.) It’s the end of dance competition season with various dance companies hosting their “nationals.” They judge the girls on technique, style and even their costumes,…
Simple Pleasures Summer
When your brain feels like a freeway during rush hour most of the time, it can feel impossible to make the exit to the Present Moment. But oddly enough, one of the biggest helpers in my journey has been Instagram, the photo app that was recently bought by Facebook. I’ve been on Instagram since it…
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