A Well Traveled Bag.

I’ve been using the same small suitcase for almost two years now. It’s a small tattered black rolling bag- perfect for the essential ‘no checking a bag’ rule. For many travels both near and far it has served me well and I haven’t much thought about its rugged looks. My beloved bag looks as though…

The Winding Road.

I’m taking a quick side step from blogging about my recent travels of Canada to write a mash up of words that just need to get out of my brain. “You have to love yourself before someone else can love you” or some form of this phrase has bled from the mouths of single people’s…

Guardian Angel.

I sat in my car, crying, screaming, upset with the world. It was one of those days that nothing seemed to be going right. As a dramatic creature by nature, my freak out was simple because of this hatred towards Minnesota winters and their misery. Not only was my car parallel parked in, squeezed as…

The Curse of the Gemini

The snow is coming down all around me, so bad I can’t see a thing in front of me. A complete white out if you will. I feel like I am aimlessly driving into a white blur, which is fine by me since my brain is chugging a thousand miles an hour. The soundtrack to…

Angels Travel Too.

One month ago my beloved Grandmother passed away. She was a strong, independent woman and one whom I looked up to dearly. Since her passing I have struggled with accepting that she is actually gone from this earth. I still have vivid dreams about her, which leaves me feeling empty like I lost of my…

YOLO

For one reason or another the phrase “You Only Live Once” or ‘YOLO’ seemed to hit the mainstream media early last winter and fans ate it up. Arguably Mae West coined the term YOLO long ago when she said, “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.”  Eh? Eh!? Anyway,…