Be as You Are – Let Life In

I had the best run of my life this morning. I never thought I’d hear myself say that a five mile run was easy and I enjoyed it. I also may never say it again, but today I felt like…
Noticing life out loud since 2011
Noticing life out loud since 2011

I had the best run of my life this morning. I never thought I’d hear myself say that a five mile run was easy and I enjoyed it. I also may never say it again, but today I felt like…
There’s almost nothing better than putting on a new outfit and knowing you look great. Particularly when the outfit is a birthday gift and is one that you had your eye on but never thought you’d own. The morning before…

What started as a clever ad campaign for V8 vegetable juice somehow became a phrase synonymous with “Wow, if only I had known, I’d have made a different choice.” Sometimes we don’t feel the accompanying thunk on the head until…

Teachers can have a profound and lasting impact on us. While overall I have positive memories of school, there are a few incidents that I remember like they happened yesterday. Like the time I tried hiding my stewed tomatoes in…

It’s been eighteen days since the last episode of getting lost, that is if you don’t count losing your car in parking garages or missing an exit due to traffic, neither of which count in my book. After more than…

While I doubt the conversation among the neighbors who shared the same party line as my grandparents ever got as racy as it did between Doris Day and Rock Hudson in Pillow Talk, I would venture a guess that there…

I am the warmth that greets your day, kissing the sky with the vibrancy of color and light. I encircle you with my bright rays of color. I touch your morning as I rise and I settle you with a…