The violence in a Bend, Oregon special education classroom took three minutes, leaving a 25 year old teacher and 3 elementary school children dead. This violence MUST STOP! Prayers and thoughts for healing after the damage mean nothing, without taking action on a systemic level to take away the guns and do things like fund … More #EnoughIsEnough #NeverAgain #VoteBlue

Pick just one thing today and let it go. We hold a lot of stuff, we hold things against ourselves, we hold things against others, we hold positive feelings, memories and experiences, true. We also hold A LOT of negative things. Pick just one of them today, is it serving any purpose for you? Is … More Pick One Thing and Let It Go!

The words “I’ll be happy when . . . ” is part of a trap, a myth. There is no perfect time to “achieve” an emotional state you seek such as joy or happiness like it rests on the top of a mountain. First, happiness or any other emotional goal, is a practice not a … More GRAB HAPPY

With each new headline that talks about a US citizen that has been detained simply because of their surname, families torn apart and devastated by an administration that simply appears not to care, I become disheartened. I no longer look to politician’s or political polls for solutions. Cruelty, dishonesty, and lawlessness seem to be a … More Choosing Faith- Not Fear

I have not posted since early last spring mainly due to being busy. Graduations, anniversaries, summer travels, and here we are at the beginning of a new school year and heading into Fall. Below is a photo dump of my trip to England with my husband this summer. Traveling and touring (while he was working) … More Another Amazing Summer

I have a passion for my family and a passion for crochet, and my latest project which has taken a year so far addresses both these passions. Above are the back and front panels, detail images and yarn used for a dress which I plan to complete for my daughter to wear at her graduation … More A Labor of Love

As I stated in my previous post the Trump administration moves forward with efforts to erase and rewrite our history, with the Smithsonian Museum being forced to comply with providing wall placards and other items for the administration’s approval as it imposes “content corrections” in order to comply and present “American exceptionalism” in all museum … More #FreedomToLearn

Some of the images below, and references might be triggering to people re: antisemitism, references to hateful language, ideology and historical events. My day began with the headline “Today is the Smithsonian’s deadline to give thousands of documents to the White House”* Former president Lyndon B. Johnson said, “Art is a nation’s most precious heritage” … More Art and Who We Are

I have not posted in quite some time but I am looking to write more regularly in the coming year. I don’t have any particular reason but somehow I feel more hopeful, even as the world around me becomes increasingly challenging in many ways. As Angela Davis said “No change is possible without hope”. That … More Welcome 2026

I find myself sitting with my sadness sometimes, but it’s not a bad thing. The sense of it, the perception and the feeling isn’t pleasant. But life isn’t all pleasant so I am reminded of the below quote by one of my favorite writers, Gabriel Garcia Marquez.