I am in the middle of my mid-life crisis, so at least my 16 year old says. How does she know? Because I have ceased caring about how much my people will tease me about it and have started to purchase little things I love for our house. In my case, this comes in my…
Author: SammyB
Plant Based Eating Month Reflection#1: How we got here
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about my own personal journeys–in relationships, in parenting, in my faith and calling, and around food and health. I rather enjoy thinking about food and health. In fact, throughout my entire adult life, I have believed that food has the power to heal and to harm and the…
When all else overwhelms, books to the rescue..
It’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted on this little blog of mine. Not because of any real boycott or anything, but simply because life is full and (as I regularly remind myself) we are still in the middle (hopefully near the end) of a pandemic. My brain is simply clogged. It’s full of…
Do you remember dating?
Friends, I’m a bit stuck in my writing and I am begging for your help… For those of you who have had a significant dating/marriage relationship in your life, could you help me out? (Or those of you with really creative imaginations or who are well read or have lots of friends or whatever…) In…
Below you will read 20 (somewhat sheepish) confessions about books that I am making today: I rarely finish a non-fiction book. Sorry Michelle, as much as I loved Becoming, I just didn’t finish it. I am an aspirational book buyer, usually of non-fiction titles. (see above) I am drawn to reading to help me travel…
Talking to a friend
One challenge that is inherent in blog writing (and keeping to a schedule) is that, inevitably, there will come a time where I feel like I have nothing to say. You know the feeling, being physically tired, emotionally tired, just tired. Today is one of those days. I just don’t think I have much to…
Goals, goals, goals…
Or, how I almost ruined my entire year in the first three days…. I love the new year. I “secretly” love to make resolutions. Only I don’t call them resolutions because that’s stupid and I only make it for about 2 days on whatever resolution I make. So, I do the sneaky thing and call…
Some thoughts on 2020
Phew, we’ve almost made it, haven’t we? In the next week, all our feeds will be filled with “best of” lists and people making public their thoughts for 2021 (Hopefully, better than what many experienced in 2020!) But it doesn’t make much sense to move on to next year, without reflecting on the year we…
The Right Time for New Things
This year, for the very first time ever in my life, I made a gingerbread house. Actually, I made a graham cracker house, but you get the idea. I found and made the recipe for the icing that is like cement when it hardens, I purchased candy canes and gum drops and other candies and…
What’s in it for you?
Hey friend– So I’ve been thinking of this little blog as our place of conversation on the interwebs. I’m learning that there are lots of ways to have real, authentic relationships with people. And one way is through the way we share our lives in the virtual sphere. But, I’m super bad at just talking…
