Lord thank you for this life, at times like an oceans tide, billowing, pulling and heaving all around me,It reminds me that you alone keep me steady.Lord thank you for the fiery darts of trial and temptation,though they soar after me without retreat.I know when I call, you will defend me.Lord thank you for my …

Blogging: one year later.
Well gang. It’s been a year. A year of sharing thoughts, experiences, good quotes, scripture, inspiration, and my scrambled-together-little-pieces-of-writing that I like to call poetry. If you’re reading this….thank you. Thank you for thinking that a girl from north Idaho who wears yellow boots, ferments tea and still loves pooh bear has something to say. …
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A change of scenery when you’re young and single and wild and freeis exhilarating, thrilling, fresh, and new.You can taste the liberation,you can feel the wonder, you can see possibilities at every corner.But the sparks always fade,the excitement vanishes, reality sinks in, and the adrenaline dissipates. The scenery is just scenery.Unfamiliar, foreign, strange.And you may …

My top 10 of 2019.
Today is the final Friday of 2019. I can hardly believe it.The Christmas festivities have passed and a new year is already upon us. As I look back on the last twelve months, I am filled with deep gratitude for the lessons learned, the challenges experienced, and the memories made. Furthermore, since I’m basically an …

When you don’t feel Merry and Bright…
Well, according to Andy Williams (or Johnny Mathis or Michael Buble or whoever you usually listen to croon the song) it’s the most wonderful time of the year!! Yes, it’s December 13th, my finals are over, snow is on the forecast, and everywhere you look lights are twinkling, wreathes are being hung, signs are advertising …